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Updated: May 13, 2025
Turning her stern on the sunset, the steamer headed in, for the golden shore. The gap opened, wider and wider, to form a broad strait. In it an island gleamed white. "That's Alcatraz Island, at the inside end of the channel," explained Mr. Grigsby, who served as a very good guide. "You'll see Yerba Buena Island some call it Goat Island in a minute, on the right of it, and Angel Island on the left.
In a sane moment he would never have attempted that leap. For that matter, perhaps, no other horse between the seas would have ever dreamed of the effort. Alcatraz headed up the stream for a narrow place, shaking his head at the roar of the current.
That spot is Alcatraz Island. Despite the fact that the island is covered with brick buildings, brick forts and brick chimneys, not a brick was loosened nor a crack made nor a quiver felt. When the scientist comes to write he will have his hands full explaining why Alcatraz did not have any physical knowledge of the event.
His fear equalled his hatred, and his hatred made him shake with fever. The horseman had vanished but it was not well to trust to mere distance. Had he not heard, more than once, the gun speaking from the hand of Cordova, and presently the wounded hawk fluttered out of the sky and dropped at the feet of the man? So Alcatraz kept on running. Besides, he rejoiced in the gallop.
No doubt if he were knocked sprawling she would rush in to help her lord and master finish the enemy. That gave Alcatraz a second problem to fight the stallion without turning his back on the treacherous mare. Before he could plan his next move the black was at him again. This time they reared together, met with a clash of teeth and rapid beat of hoofs, and parted on equal terms.
And the shock of every footfall struck home in the heart of Marianne and filled her with a great loneliness and terror. And then the noise of the gallop died away in the far-off night. Alcatraz, cresting the hill, warned the mares with a snort.
Not many trees are seen here now, however, but you may behold instead in harvest time fields of grain. It is especially noted for its stone quarries, and out of these were taken the materials for the fortifications of Alcatraz and Fort Point as well as the California bank building.
For all his surliness, however, Shorty was her best ally. "Wait till you see Lady Mary begin to but isn't that a horse beyond the corral? A grey horse? I think it is, but it can't be." "Why not?" "There isn't a grey horse on the ranch, and oh!" For the gate of the corral creaked and then swung wide. They could not see Alcatraz, for the bay mares stood between.
"Honey," he said, "you're eating your heart out about something. How come?" "Red Perris is overdue," she said. "But I don't want to bother you with my troubles, Dad." "Red Perris? Who's he?" "Don't you remember? I told you how he rode Rickety. And now I've sent for him to come and hunt Alcatraz because once that man-killing horse is dead, it will be easy to get the mares back.
It seemed that in the silence Alcatraz had found a signal of danger for now he swung that imperious head about and looked full at Red Perris. By his own act he had changed the aim of the hunter to a yet more fatal target the forehead. The heart of Perris leaped even as it had stirred, more than once, when he had looked into the eyes of fighting men.
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