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He knew that if he could make that eighty-mile run in safety he stood a good chance of winning the prize, for no harder test could have been devised. But the race was still far from won. There was a particularly unsafe stretch of road yet to be covered, and then would come a smooth highway into Shopton. "Ten miles more," observed Mr Damon, snapping shut his big gold watch.
His position at Trufanagora not only gave him control of the Mezen road and cut off the meats from Mezen and the sending of flour and medical supplies to Mezen and Petchura, in which area an officer of the Russian Northern Army was opposing the local Red Guards, but it also gave him a position that made of the line of communication to our rear a veritable eighty-mile front.
Well, then, I shall stay here among the peasants until old Jochem sends me news of Schrimbs or Peppel. To be sure, in the course of my eighty-mile journey I have cooled down a little, for it makes considerable difference when two weeks intervene between a project and its execution. Furthermore the question now is: What sort of revenge shall I take on him?
While "Dock" made a good record as a courier, his chief fame was gained in a fight at Rock Creek station, in which Brink and Wild Bill "cleaned out" the McCandless gang of outlaws, killing five of their number. Charles Cliff had an eighty-mile pony run when only seventeen years of age, but, like Brink, young Cliff gained his greatest reputation as a fighter, in his case fighting Indians.
Pierre looked at a sear on his finger and nodded. "She cut it too young; but she had the nerve! When do you start, captain? It's an eighty-mile ride." "At once," was the reply. The snow is light and we can travel quick. I have a good horse, and you " "I have my black Tophet. He'll travel with your roan as on one snaffle-bar. That roan you know where he come from?"
In fact, he had no idea of them at all. He was worn and weary after the long, hard eighty-mile ride. The fire was warm, the room still and peaceful; no sound broke the silence but Hurley's occasional step and soft whistle out in the "linter" at the rear where lay his packing-boxes. Possibly Davies may have become drowsy, dreamy, as he reclined there.
There was something in that laugh that sent a chill through O'Grady. It was as hard as steel, a sort of madman's laugh. It was seven miles to the first portage, and there were nine in the eighty-mile stretch. O'Grady and his Chippewayan were a hundred yards ahead when the prow of their canoe touched shore.
Pierre looked at a sear on his finger and nodded. "She cut it too young; but she had the nerve! When do you start, captain? It's an eighty-mile ride." "At once," was the reply. The snow is light and we can travel quick. I have a good horse, and you " "I have my black Tophet. He'll travel with your roan as on one snaffle- bar. That roan you know where he come from?"
I have met persons who share my belief, their opinion being based on an acquaintance with the educated class. MACAO, March 28th: We again took the steamer Kian Tang for an eighty-mile run to Macao. The scene is quite as varied and pleasing as the passage from Hong-Kong to Canton.
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