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Vose did not require to have the matter explained to him, for he understood it. Upon being hailed, the intruder instead of throwing up his hands or starting to run, had also assumed a stooping position. It was as if he had quietly sunk below the surface of a sea of darkness through which he was wading, and swum with noiseless celerity to a point beyond reach.
His friends attributed this to the closeness of his reward for his abstention, but he took several walks up the mountain side and was gone for a good while. He wore a smiling face and Vose Adams declared that he overheard him communing with himself, when he thought he was too far off for the act to be noticed.
And I could believe that later when, after sailing some miles up the inlet, we came to the burned ruins of a collection of huts and sheds. This was Tugg's headquarters, and his partner, Professor Vose, the man I had come so far to see, was not there. The attack on the encampment of the animal trappers had evidently been made several days before. The fire had devastated the place.
Mac toiled up the stairs and into his mother's room. "I fought maybe you wanted to see me," he observed. "What for you putting all vose fings into ve box?" "Because we are going to see grandpapa and Aunt Teddy, and then we are all going to the seashore." "What is ve seashore?"
He had brought his dog Timon all the way from Virginia, where he was given to him by an old friend who wore the gray. We were hopeful of meeting Vose Adams in Sacramento, but he had not been there for weeks. Instead of him, whom should we come across but Ike Hoe, who was also getting ready to start for this place. We three set out nearly ten days ago, but Ike is still in the mountains."
The exact line of action that had been agreed upon! Vose Adams was firmly convinced that this was the very thing that had taken place and the utmost he could do was to prevent the horsemen from acting on that theory until the fugitives were given opportunity to pass beyond reach.
Vose Adams continued his frequent journeys to Sacramento, for those were stirring times and he was as anxious as his friends for news.
The woodcraft of Vose Adams would enable him to discover with slight delay the point where the fugitives had left the cañon, and he would guide his companions with the skill of one of the mountain Indians themselves. On the other hand, the plan he had in view imposed prodigious work upon his own animal.
Had he made a prisoner of Vose Adams, as he thought for a minute of doing, the guide would really be more dangerous, since there was no way of guarding against his treachery, but if he could be turned into a friend, it would be almost equivalent to saving the fugitives. It was that for which the young man planned, but he felt that the real work must be done by Nellie.
If you come back, you would have been sartin to meet us, and what then?" "My intention was not to return, but to keep away from the main trail and hunt a shorter road through the mountains to Sacramento." Vose Adams gave a low whistle of astonishment. "That's the worst I ever heard!" "And why?"
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