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"That's the trouble with them," agreed Tom; "they're no good in the woods; they're clumsy. They're punk scouts." "Scouts!" Roscoe chuckled. "If we had to fight this gang of cut-throats and murderers in the woods where old What's-his-name Custer had to fight the Indians, take it from me, we'd have them wiped up in a month.
There is a desprate gang of cut-throats from over in the Indian Territory going to steal your runaway nigger to-night, and they have been trying to scare you so as you will stay in the house and not bother them. I am one of the gang, but have got religgion and wish to quit it and lead an honest life again, and will betray the helish design.
Then, hesitatingly, "Steve," he said, "what's the good of acting like that with fellows?" "Like what?" asked Steve. "You know well enough. Freezing up and talking as if you had a mouthful of icicles. You might be be decently polite when fellows come in. Freer is a dandy chap, and Saunders is all right, too. But you treated them as if they were were a couple of cut-throats."
Cochises's people never came this far west of the Chiricahua Range. It's white cut-throats maybe, and we'll need our whole command."
As the men who were out hunting were all familiar with every foot of the region they were then in, the commanding officer of the troops induced them to accompany him in his search for the murderers. Hobbs and his men cheerfully accepted the invitation, and in about four days met the band of cut-throats on the broad Trail, they little dreaming that the government had taken a hand in the matter.
"Wow! but if it wass not for the weemen an' children that's with us, you would hev a goot chance o' bein' in need o' sparin' yoursels; an' it iss not much o' the blood o' the Grants, either, that's in your veins, or ye would scorn to consort wi' such fire-raisin' cut-throats. It iss the fortune of war whatever, and we can't affoord to leave our weemen an' bairns defenceless.
Beamish, my adversary, he described as a morose, fire-eating southern, that evidently longed for an "affair" with a military man, then considered a circumstance of some eclat in the south; his second, the doctor, on the contrary, was by far "the best of the cut-throats," a most amusing little personage, full of his own importance, and profuse in his legends of his own doings in love and war, and evidently disposed to take the pleasing side of every occurrence in life; they both agreed in but one point a firm and fixed resolve to give no explanation of the quarrel with me.
The world of leaf and bird, the circumambient firmament of music and light, shone in upon him through books. A book was the master key that unlocked all his senses, that unfolded the varied landscape, animated the hero, painted the flower, swelled the orchestra of wind and ocean, peopled the plains of India with starvelings and the mountains of Afghanistan with cut-throats.
Of black men I had seen several, who were called negroes, and others of a higher sort called Moors; gross, vulgar fellows for the most part and cut-throats if in an ill-humour, but never a one of them like this Kari. It was long before my curiosity was satisfied, and even then I did not gather much.
You have paid dearly, and have made us pay dearly, for your mad frolic of fighting cut-throats on the highroad." The wonder was that I did not kill him on the spot. I cannot think what possessed the man, he must have known me better. "My recklessness!" I shouted, fairly hoarse with anger. I paid no heed to Mr. Swain's warning. "You d d scoundrel!" I cried, "it was you killed him, and you know it.
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