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Every surrounding object was buried in silence save that from the neighboring Dens of the royal steeds, came the sound of the rattle of a chain, or of the stamp of a stallion's hoof. If he risked escaping from the camp now, he could not fail to be seen and stopped.
He found a ledge at length, and there the three huddled together Niotte between swooning and sleep, Graul seated beside her, and Rubh standing patient, waiting for the day. When the crashing ceased around them, the King could hear the soft flakes of sweat dripping from the stallion's belly, and saw the stars reflected now from the floor where his forest had stood.
'Not when I brought thee' Kim actually dared to use the turn of equals 'a white stallion's pedigree that night? 'Much is gained by forgetting, little brother, said the Colonel, with a look that pierced through Kim's shoulder-blades as he scuttled into the carriage. It took him nearly five minutes to recover. Then he sniffed the new air appreciatively. 'A rich city, he said. 'Richer than Lahore.
The first or upper thighs were very long and strong, curving sharply out to hocks that were well let down, and without a hint of turn inward or outward. His loins were well arched, his chest deep, like an Arab stallion's, his neck long, arched, and very strong, like the massy muscles of his fore-arms.
His stentorian voice took up the call for Lucy to win. "Three-quarters!" bowled Holley into Bostil's ear. "An' Lucy's give thet wild hoss free rein! Look, Bostil! You never in your life seen a hoss ran like thet!" Bostil never had. His heart swelled. Something shook him. Was that his girl that tight little gray burr half hidden in the huge stallion's flaming mane?
Clearer every moment grew that crouching figure; till at length they plainly could discern the line of arching loins, the crest, thick as a stallion's, the massive, wagging head. No mistake this time. There he lay in the deepest black, gigantic, revelling in his horrid debauch the Black Killer! And they watched him at his feast.
Stealing quietly away to the corrals, he deftly flung a riata over the stallion's head, and, looping it about the animal's nose, was on his back with a bound. There was no question of Juan's ability to ride him. Once on a horse's back, he had never yet been unseated.
"When thou shalt have passed the Gateway, my lord, Naraini will be waiting for thee." "Very well." Amber threw a leg over the crupper, handed the stallion's reins to the sowar, who had dismounted and drawn near, and dropped upon his feet. Naraini nodded to the sowar, who led the animal away. When he was out of earshot the woman leaned from the saddle, her glorious eyes to Amber's.
The colored boy flashes one glance at the horse and rider who are so surely gaining upon him, and his lips close in a grim line. They are half-way down the stretch, and Mosquito's head is at the stallion's neck. For a single moment Patsy thinks of the sick woman at home and what that race will mean to her, and then his knees close against the horse's sides with a firmer dig.
"Do you know," said the cowboy, at last, hesitatingly, "I can't explain it and I don't talk about it much, for it was the strangest thing that ever happened to me but when I looked into that black stallion's eyes, and he looked me straight in the face, I never felt so sorry for anything in my life.
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