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Updated: June 13, 2025
The half dozen cavalrymen, upon the appearance of so large a force, turned their horses and galloped away. "Hello, Si," said the Orderly of Co. Q, "yer ear's bleedin'. What hurt ye?" "Fell down and scratched it on a brier!" said Si, as soon as he was able to speak. That night Si and Shorty sat on a log by the campfire talking over the events of the day.
''Tis a tremendous night, gentlemen, so by your leave I'll stir the fire and, yes, I seen him, poor Nutter and, paugh, an ugly sight he is, I can tell you; here Larry, bring me a rummer-glass of punch his right ear's gone, and a'most all his right hand and screeching hot, do you mind an', phiew altogether 'tis sickening them fishes, you know I'm a'most sorry I went in you remember Dogherty's whiskey shop in Ringsend he lies in the back parlour, and wondherful little changed in appearance.
It was after midnight before the steady jingle of Jag Ear's orchestra had any intermission. An hour for food and rest and the little party was off again in the delicious cool of the night, toward a curtain pricked with stars which seemed to be drawn down over the edge of the world. "What sort of horses had Prather and Nogales?" Jack asked.
The twang of a guitar quivering starward made medley with Jag Ear's bells. Here, for a little distance, the trail, in its long reach on the desert, had taken on the dignity of the urban name of street. On either side, fronting the cottages, ran the slow waters of two irrigation ditches, gleaming where lamp-rays penetrated the darkness.
Now he realized that he had made a breach in the barrier of their old relations only to find himself in a garden whose flowers fell to ashes at his touch. He saw the light that enveloped her as an armor far less vulnerable than any wall, and the splendor of her was growing in his eyes. Jag Ear's bells with their warm and merry notes became a faint tinkle that was lost in the depths of the defile.
"Say, aren't you coming to school?" called back Jackie Bow Wow, for he and Curly were some distance down the street by this time. "Yes, come on, or you'll surely be late," said Flop Ear's brother. "I'm coming!" cried Flop, but he thought he would take just one more look at the sliding door. "I would like to have just one slide on it," he said. "I believe I'll try it."
Now he could talk as freely and happily of the desert to his father as to Burleigh and Mathewson. He told of the long rides; of Firio and Wrath of God. He made the tinkle of Jag Ear's bells heard in the silence of the dining-room as it was heard in the silences of the trail. He mentioned how he was afraid to come back after he was strong. "Afraid?" queried his father. "Yes.
P.D. in the freshness of his long holiday, feeling a familiar pressure of a leg, hastened to overtake his companions; and the group of Little Riversites watched a chubby horseman and a tall, gaunt horseman, bathed in gold, riding away on a hazy sea of gold, with Jag Ear's bells growing fainter and fainter, until the moving specks were lost in the darkness.
I " The unfinished sentence sank into the silence of things inexpressible or which it was purposeless to express. Her voice suggested the tinkle of Jag Ear's bells floating away into space. If a precipitate were taken from her forehead, in keeping with Jack's suggestion to Dr. Bennington, it would have been mercury, which is so tangible to the eye and intangible to the touch.
And still the interminable procession came out of the obscurity to south and passed into the obscurity to north, with never a sound of voice, nor hoof, nor wheel. The man could not rightly understand: he thought himself deaf; said so, and heard his own voice, although it had an unfamiliar quality that almost alarmed him; it disappointed his ear's expectancy in the matter of timbre and resonance.
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