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The mountaineer's eyes were fixed upon a tall, imperious looking man, whose collar bore the silver stars of a Colonel. "He has found his man at last," said Harry, noticing his companion's attitude, and picking up his own gun in readiness for what might come. Fortner half-cocked his rifle, took from its nipple the cap that had been tehre an hour and flung it away.
"Wolf must be gitten close ter him," said one of the men. Fortner laid his rifle across the log, and drew from his belt a long keen knife. He stirred slightly in doing this, and in turning to confront the dog.
The snow was too loose I went down. Toward evening I had reached the highest spot from which I could be seen from my son's house. He was coming from the barn and happened to see me, and then quickly came to meet me and very soon led me safely to his home. So the Lord had mercy on me once more. One time I received a telegram from Brother Fortner of Brookings, S. Dakota asking me to come at once.
The sound of the shots brought the rest up at a gallop, and a rapid fire was opened on the end of the rock. But the instant Fortner fired he sprang back behind the rock, and then ran under its cover a little distance up the mountain side to a dense laurel thicket, in which he laid down behind a log and reloaded his rifle. He listened.
Git out, Beauty!" said Forstner, imperiously. "Lay down, Watch! Quiet Bruno!" The clamors of the gang changed to little yelps of welcome. "Is that you, Jim?" inquired a high-pitched but not unpleasant voice, from the door. "Yes, Aunt Debby," answered Fortner, "an' I hev some one with me."
Gran'fathes Brill an' Fortner war both on 'em killed at the Injun ambush at Blue Licks. I wuz on'y a baby when my father wuz killed at the massacre of Winchester's men at the River Raisin. My brother " "father of the man I was with yesterday?" "No; HIS father wuz my oldest brother.
"Heah's 'nuther pone, honey," she said to Fortner, as she handed both of them segments of another disk of corn-bread, to replace that which they had ravenously devoured. "An' le' me fill yer bowls agin. Hit takes a powerful sight o' bread an' milk ter do when one's rale hongry. But 'tain't like meat vittels. Ye can't eat 'nuff ter do ye harm."
They've ez little marcy ez a pack o' wolves in a sheep-pen." "Well," continued Fortner, meditatively, "Ole Rockassel's gittin' a glut to-night. She'd orten't ter need no more now fur a hundred yeahs." "I don't understand you," said Harry. "Why, they say thet the Rockassel hez ter hev a man every Spring an' Fall.
"Yes," said Aunt Debby, inhospitably disregarding the exhaustion of the provender, and speaking a little more quickly than her wont, "but which side whipt?" "Our'n, in course," said Fortner, with nettled surprise at the question. "Our'n, in course. Old Zollicoffer got ez bad a licken ez ever Gineral Zach Taylor gi'n the Mexicans." "Rayally?" she said.
I'm actin' ez orderly an' messenger 'bout headquarters, but I'll come ter ye whenever I kin git a chance, an' keep ye posted." This was Friday night. All day Saturday, as long as the light lasted, Rachel stood at the window and watched with sinking heart the steady inflow of the Rebels from the north. That night she and Aunt Debby waited till midnight for Fortner, but he did not come.
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