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Major Clark tried to rally his battalion to cover the retreat, but he was killed and the effort abandoned. Wild Rout of the Army. There never was a wilder rout. As soon as the men began to run, and realized that in flight there lay some hope of safety, they broke into a stampede which soon became uncontrollable.
For some time Wilder stands in speechless surprise, his glances going all around. But no human figure is seen, either by the palmilla or among the sage-bushes beside it. Can the wounded man have crawled away? But no; why should he? Still, to make sure, the ex-Ranger shouts out, calling Hamersley by name. He gets no response.
A flock of buzzards, seemingly scared by his shadow, have suddenly flapped up from among the sage-plants, and are now soaring around, close to the spikes of the palmilla. They have evidently been down upon the earth. And what have they been doing there? It is this question, mentally put by Walt Wilder, that has caused the quick change in his countenance the result of a painful conjecture.
But he failed to find the least trace of them; and indeed the moor is wide now and was far wider and wilder and more desolate in those days, before there was a fence or a ditch to be found in the whole of it.
Cork affecting his wife for the better were disappointed. She grew steadily wilder and after a few days so intractable with her that Mr. Tebrick again took her under his complete control. The first morning Mrs. Cork made her a new jacket, cutting down the sleeves of a blue silk one of Mrs.
Them thieves, the Iroquois, wont say it to any face that I ever thirsted after mans blood, I have fout as soldier that feared his Maker and his officer, but I never pulled trigger on any but a warrior that was up and awake. No man can say that I ever struck even a Mingo in his blanket. I believe theres some who thinks theres no God in a wilder ness!
He counted out four lire and added a note. Tony pocketed the lire and returned the note, while Mr. Wilder stared his astonishment. 'Good-bye, Tony, Constance smiled as he turned away. 'Good-bye, signorina. There was a note of finality in his voice. 'Well! Mr. Wilder ejaculated.
It was soothing to catch even that passing glimpse of a tranquil English home in the midst of the wild, dark business which had absorbed us. And the more I thought of what had happened, the wilder and darker it grew. I reviewed the whole extraordinary sequence of events as I rattled on through the silent gas-lit streets. There was the original problem: that at least was pretty clear now.
"Did you put the combination down in writing?" asked Mr. Wilder. "No, I never did anything of that sort. The combination was an unusually easy one, as you know." "Yes, far too easy for our good," groaned Mr. Rush. Then he gazed at the four boys curiously. "What brought you here?" he asked. "We thought we might know something of this affair," said Dick, and told his story.
She drew Steadfast close to her, and bade him not show himself till she told him, for some of the wilder sort would blaze away their pistols at anything, especially when they had had any good ale, or were out of sorts.
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