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The feed-box was a mystic and terrible machine, like some dark magician's trap. She felt it almost possible that she should see the three weird man floating spectrally away through the air. She glanced with swift apprehension behind her, and when the dazzle from the lantern's light had left her eyes, saw only the dim hillside stretched in solemn silence.
Sadly, ruefully, she thought of the calm man and of the contents of the feed-box. The sum of her invention was that she could sally forth to the commander of the blue cavalry, and confessing to him that there were three of her friends and his enemies secreted in the feed-box, pray him to let them depart unmolested. But she was beginning to believe the old greybeard to be a bear.
But most of all he showed interest in and playfulness toward his mother and her doings. He would follow her about untiringly, pausing whenever she paused, starting off again whenever she started off seemingly bent upon acquiring the how and why of her every movement. But it was his playfulness finally that brought him first needless suffering. The mare was standing with her nose in the feed-box.
Into one of these shanties, just tall enough for Skipper to enter and no more, the horse that had been the pride of the mounted park police was driven with a kick as a greeting. Skipper noted first that there was no feed-box and no hayrack. Then he saw, or rather felt for the only light came through cracks in the walls that there was no floor. His nostrils told him that the drainage was bad.
"A table first. Here, the very thing," said Jack, making towards a long feed-box at the rear of the barn. As they cleared its top of a pile of harness West asked, "Just what is the scheme here, youngster? I don't think I understand it." "Oh, simple enough. I'll just run the wires out through that knot-hole, and connect one to the fence and the other to the ground." "Simple!
Don't touch 'im or you goin' spin lak' top an' mebbe you go over W'ite 'Orse sideways. Dat's goin' smash you, sure." Royal broke out, peevishly: "Another hot tip, eh? Everybody's got some feed-box information especially the ones you don't hire. Well, I ain't scared " "Oh yes, you are!" said the other man. "Everybody is scare' of dis place." "Anyhow, I ain't scared a thousand dollars' worth.
The interior of the barn possessed for her another fascination because it was now uncanny. It contained that extraordinary feed-box. When she peeped again at the knot-hole, the calm, grey prisoner was seated upon the feed-box, thumping it with his dangling, careless heels as if it were in nowise his conception of a remarkable feed-box. The sentry also stood facing it.
The sentry conversed with the prisoner. At last the girl saw a head thrust slowly from under the beam. She perceived the face of one of the miraculous soldiers from the feed-box. A pair of eyes glintered and wavered, then finally settled upon her, a pale statue of a girl. The eyes became lit with a kind of humorous greeting. An arm gestured at her. Stooping, she breathed, "All right."
She resisted the stable for some time, but after carefully examining it with her hoofs, and an affectedly meek outstretching of her nose, she consented to recognize some oats in the feed-box without looking at them and was formally installed. All this while she had resolutely ignored my presence. As I stood watching her she suddenly stopped eating; the same reflective look came over her.
Moreover, he had never saved a jockey's life nor a jockey's mother from eviction, hence feed-box tips were not likely. Nor did he know a single soul in the business of inventing rat-traps or shoe-buttons.
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