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Updated: May 25, 2025
The hammer fell from Ike's hands upon the anvil. "'Twar ye ez Grig Beemy war a-waitin' fur thar on the mounting in the mist!" he cried out, recognizing the man's odd gesture, which Jube had unconsciously imitated. Doubtless the dollar was offered to Jube afterward, exactly as it had been offered to him. And Jube had taken it.
Although the master of the horse did not know the thief "from Adam," Beemy had been seen with the animal and recognized by others, who, accompanying the sheriff and the owner, had traced him for two days through many wily doublings in the mountain fastnesses. They now concluded to press on to Beemy's house. Ike knew they would find him there waiting for Jube and the horse.
Beemy had feared that he would be followed, and this was the reason that he had desired to rid himself of the animal for a day and night, until he could make sure and feel more secure. As the horsemen swept round the curve, Ike remembered how close was the road to the cliff. If he had only given the mare her head, she would have carried him safely around it.
"Ter-morrer night ride him up ter my house on the mounting. Ye hev hearn tell o' me, hain't ye, Jedge? My name's Grig Beemy. Don't kem till night, 'kase I won't be thar till then. I hev got ter stop yander yander" he looked about uncertainly, "yander ter the sawmill till then, 'kase I promised ter holp work thar some. I'll gin ye the dollar now," he added liberally, as an extra inducement.
Could he support it? Grig Beemy of course would deny it. And Jube had he not known how Jube could lie? Would he not fear that the truth might somehow involve him with the horse-thief? Ike, with despair in his heart, urged his mare to her utmost speed, knowing now the danger he was in as a suspected horse-thief.
The imitative monkey thrust it hastily into his pocket, and came down from his fantastic toe, and stood soberly enough on his two feet. "Grig Beemy gin ye that thar dollar," said Ike. Jube sullenly denied it. "He never, now!" "His critter hev got no call ter be in dad's barn." "His critter ain't hyar," protested Jube. "This dollar war gin me in trade ter the settlemint."
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