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On our way back Curlie informed us that he had taken us three miles beyond our lines, and we were very near being caught just opposite the line at the firing of the sundown gun. But with Curlie's earnest pleading the guards consented to allow us to cross the line.
So had Gentle Annie, munching a reflective cud, and Sundown, in a metaphorical sense, doing likewise. He had walked around the cow inspecting her with an anxious and critical eye. She seemed healthful and voluptuously contented. Yet no milk came. Bud Shoop, having at that moment arrived with the team, sized up the situation.
"The boss said I was to be cook," said Sundown, rather awed by the personality of the bluff foreman. "Meet him at Antelope?" "No. It was the American Hotel. He said for me to tell you if I walked in I could get a job cookin'." "All right. What he says goes. Had anything to eat recent?" "I et a half a rabbit yesterday mornin'." "Well, sufferin' shucks! You fan it right in here!"
He did not look so, but chatted away with open, smiling face, as he pointed first on one side then on the other to some striking-looking shop or building, though he never paused for a moment, but kept on at a good rate without showing a sign of hurry or excitement. "How are we to get on board when we get to the river?" I said, as we went on. "There'll be no boat till sundown."
Stewart knew the lay of the ridges and run of the canyons as well as any man could know a country where, seemingly, every rod was ridged and bisected, and he was of the opinion that we had stumbled upon one of the White Mustang's secret passages, by which he had so often eluded his pursuers. Hard riding had been the order of the day, but still we covered ten more miles by sundown.
I can not exactly say whether it will be in the noon, or at the sundown when people are coming home, or in the morning when the world is waking up, or while the clock is striking twelve at night. But I tell you what I think, that with some of you it will be before next Saturday night. A minister of the Gospel said to an audience: "Before next Sabbath some of you will be gone."
A Saracen compared to such was a courteous knight.. .. He thought of Kublai, the greater Khakan. Perhaps in his court might dwell gentlehood and reason. But here was but a wolf pack in the faraway guise of man. They gave the strangers food and drink halfcooked fish and a porridge of rye and sour spiced milk, and left them to sleep until sundown. Then the palace guards led them to the presence.
The two men met enthusiastically, some words were exchanged in an undertone, and both burst out laughing a laugh of triumph. Was it at the expense of poor little Gabrielle? I was left outside to mind the car, and waited for fully an hour and a half. The wind blew bitterly cold at sundown, as it always does on the Riviera in December, and I was glad of my big fur coat.
Now when he had made an end of eating, he asked for the wherewithal to wash his hands and when the Mameluke had washed them clean of the remnants of food, he arose and made the Wuzu-ablution and prayed the prayers of sundown and nightfall, conjoining them in one; after which he sat down. And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.
Such was the zeal for righteousness woven by many hands into the fabric of the West. A little before sundown they reached the settlement. Samson asked a man in the road if he knew where they could find the nurse Bim Kelso. "Do ye mean that angel o' God in a white dress that takes keer o' the sick?" the man asked. "I guess that would be Bim," said Samson.
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