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Updated: May 8, 2025
He had on the same suit of coarse, homespun clothes the trousers hiked up toward one shoulder from the strain of a single suspender; the waistcoat held by one button; the shirt open at the neck, showing the wrinkled throat, wrinkled as an old saddle-bag, and brown, hairy chest. Pie still carried his big slouch hat, dust-begrimed and frayed at the edges.
Miller recognized in him a black giant by the name of Josh Green, who for many years had worked on the docks for Miller's father, and simultaneously identified him as the dust-begrimed negro who had stolen a ride to Wellington on the trucks of a passenger car. "Well, Josh," asked the doctor, as he examined the fracture, "how did you get this? Been fighting again?"
In fifteen minutes the black-hooded wagon was twisting and turning over the powdery road a good mile ahead, its dust rising high over the sage-covered desert, while the other two, with the dust-begrimed troopers, jogged sturdily on. Loring, the young engineer, had waved a cordial good-by to his old cadet acquaintance. "See you later, old man," he cried.
The original event in the town itself was a very tame if impressive affair merely a score or so of people, singing "Rule, Britannia," surrounding eight or nine dust-begrimed figures, each holding a tired and jaded horse, and a few women on the outskirts of the circle with tears of joy in their eyes. Needless to say, no one thought of sleep that night.
Many and curious were the glances cast at us as we stood there, dust-begrimed and travel-stained; and a number of those whom we had put off in the early morning swarmed round us again with their endless questions, which we were hard pressed to parry. Almost beside us was another door, opening into the council chamber, and interest seemed to be divided between us and what was passing there.
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