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Carr's friend, Detective Green, had furnished that gentleman with a descriptive bill of Gordon of the mutiny: "a young, slight man, with light eyes and fair hair." This did not answer exactly to the Gorton who had played his part at Calne; but then, in regard to the latter, there remained the suspicion that the red hair was false.
The room was hot by comparison with outdoors. He looked about. Carr's woman motioned him to a chair. Opposite him the youngest Carr squatted like a brown Billiken on a wolfskin. Every detail of that room was familiar. There was the heavy, homemade chair wherein Sam Carr was wont to sit and read. Close by it stood Sophie's favorite seat.
Then he sat down on a box near the doorstep and studied her gravely before he spoke. Helen smiled. 'You are thinking unpleasant things about some one, she stated quickly. 'Has the world turned into a terribly serious place all of a sudden? There was little levity in Carr's make-up at any time; just now his speech was as sober as his look.
"It's queer," said Thompson, "why a man like that should bury himself here so long. Is it a fact that he is married to a native woman? His daughter now one wouldn't imagine her " "No fear," Tommy Ashe interrupted. "Carr's got an Indian woman, right enough. They've got three mixed-blood youngsters. But his daughter " He gave Thompson a quick sidelong glance. "Sophie's pure blood," said he.
With the same uncanny swiftness of gathering so it passed, leaving behind a pleasant coolness in the air, clean smells of the washed earth arising. The sun blazed out again. A million rain-pearls hung glistening on the blades of grass in the meadow before Sam Carr's house.
But as he strained his eyes eagerly toward the beautiful picture, the scene was suddenly wrapped in darkness, and the steamer glided on. "Who was that, and what place was it?" he asked again. "It was Fisher's Landing, I said," rejoined the other. "The girl is 'Saucy Jessie Bain, as they call her hereabouts. She's Captain Carr's niece." "Has she a lover?" suddenly asked Varrick.
'You're damned well right, I would! cried Howard heartily. And Helen understood that for the moment at least he had forgotten that she was present. A slow smile came into Carr's eyes. 'That's square shooting, Long Boy. he spoke more impetuously than Helen had thought the man could 'but I never went back on a play yet, did I? I'm just sort of homesick for the old place, that's all.
They came, then, to Track's End to rob, and to murder if needs be, on Saturday, February 5th. My good luck consisted in this: The evening before, just as the sun was about to go down, I saw them at Mountain's from the windmill tower with Tom Carr's field-glass. I had gone up on purpose to have a look about, as I did two or three times every day when the weather was so I could see.
People felt sorry for the probable hardships the brother and sister were to undergo; and they had as many little gifts and notes of sympathy and counsel as Katy herself when she was starting for Europe. But I am anticipating. Before the trunks were packed, Dr. Carr's anxieties about his "Babes in the Wood" were greatly allayed by a visit from Mrs. Hall.
Most of the Indians did cross the river near Ogallah as he predicted, and thence continued northward. That night we returned to the Republican River and camped in a grove of cottonwoods, which I named Carr's Grove in honor of our commander. General Carr informed me that the next day's march would be toward the headwaters of the Beaver.
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