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The next instant or so it seemed they were right upon it. "Hang on!" yelled Isadore, and shot his boot-heel into the icy surface of the slide. The toboggan swerved. Jennie uttered a cry. The sled went up the left hand dyke like a bolting horse climbing a roadside wall or a side hill. In Ruth's ears rang the shouts of their friends, who were coming hastily up the hillside.
I'll leave here before another hour passes by, and I'll never set a boot-heel inside of your door ag'in as long as you live!" "Oh hell!" said Chadron, spurring forward into the road. Chadron's men rode away after him, except five whom he detailed to stay behind and guard the ranch.
There was no name or initials on either, and both might conceivably have belonged to the murdered man. As yet no one had identified either article with any owner. The hat had been trodden down by a boot-heel in a slither of blood on the floor-cloth of the squalid little room. Some chances had to be taken.
"I shouldn't do that if I were you," said Parson Jack, rapping the bowl of his pipe against his boot-heel. "I don't suppose you would," retorted the small boy. "But then there's some parsons wouldn't smoke a clay."
And he kneeled down and begun to unscrew the heel-plate, everybody watching; and when he got that big di'mond out of that boot-heel and held it up and let it flash and blaze and squirt sunlight everwhichaway, it just took everybody's breath; and Jubiter he looked so sick and sorry you never see the like of it. And when Tom held up the other di'mond he looked sorrier than ever.
There was a cross in the left boot-heel made with big nails, to keep off the devil. I was up in a second and shinning down the hill. I looked over my shoulder every now and then, but I didn't see nobody. I was at Judge Thatcher's as quick as I could get there. He said: "Why, my boy, you are all out of breath. Did you come for your interest?" "No, sir," I says; "is there some for me?"
She turned upon him a look of silent but intense and indignant disappointment. "Honoré!" cried Sylvestre, desirous of repairing his defeat, "Honoré!" But Honoré was receiving the clamorous abuse of the two half dozens of girls. "Honoré!" cried Sylvestre again, holding up a torn scrap of writing-paper which bore the marks of the counting-room floor and of a boot-heel, "how do you spell 'la-dee?"
The Virginian stepped to the door, and then he bent to the gravel and beckoned us to come and see. Among the recent footprints at the threshold the man's boot-heel was plain, as well as the woman's broad tread. But while the man's steps led into the cabin, they did not lead away from it.
The other assailant was using his boot-heel on the prostrate man at that moment, when the Hibernian gave him a couple of blows in lightning-like succession. They landed upon the face of the coward with a sensation about the same as if a well-shod mule had planted his two hind feet there. He, too, collapsed on the instant, and for a considerable time lost all interest in worldly affairs.
He glanced from side to side of the steep and narrowing walls as he advanced slowly. He passed places where the stream disappeared in the sand to find some subterranean channel and reappear below again. Rounding an angle of the cliff, he dropped to his knees and examined some tiny parallel scratches on a rounded rock the marks made by a boot-heel that had slipped.
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