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His bewildered brain was puzzling over a weighty problem. "The lieutenant's safe all right," he muttered, "but what's gone wid the squaw that was shoutin' Sioux at that murdherin' buck?" Meantime all Fort Frayne had seemed to wake to life. No call had sounded on the trumpet.
He said the two troops that, never even halting at Frayne, had pushed out on the trail, would only get into trouble if they tried to enter the hills from the South, and that they would never get the captives, wherein Pete was right, for away out among the spurs and gorges of the range, fifty miles from Frayne, the pursuers came upon the wreck of the wagon at the foot of an acclivity, up which a force of Sioux had gone in single file.
Bill Hay, and within the week of her arrival Nanette Flower was the toast of the bachelors' mess, the talk of every household at Fort Frayne. And well she might be. Dark and lustrous were her eyes; black, luxuriant and lustrous was her hair; dark, rich and lustrous her radiant beauty. In contour her face was well nigh faultless.
Jerry clung to the handle of the door at the top of the steps, and the flour came off white upon his Oxford mixture coat as he turned dizzy and sick in his hurry and despair, for he knew that the figure he had seen must be that of Richard Frayne, and he had come too late! "He must have seen me," groaned Jerry; "and just as he was a-hesitating he thought I'd come to drag him back, and he went in.
At five they were to start and Jessie could hardly curb her impatience. The mail from Frayne, so said Folsom, would arrive that evening, and then surely there would be news of Marshall. They had slipped away to their rooms after the bountiful luncheon served on their return, in order, as "Pappoose" expressed it, that the gentlemen might have their cigars in peace. Mrs.
Not a word had he uttered to either the officers who respectfully greeted, or reporters who eagerly importuned, him as to the situation at Frayne; but men who had served with him in Arizona and on the Yellowstone many a year before, knew well that grave tidings had reached him.
They passed on into the hotel and Beth jumped up and went down toward the lake. "Did you ever hear Rob speak of this Miss Frayne?" asked Silvia. "Often. She is engaged to his cousin, and is a reporter on a big newspaper." "Why didn't you say so? Oh, Lucien," she continued before I could speak, "were you really shrewd enough to see which way the wind was blowing?" "Sure.
They had hoped, as "Fox" had planned and promised, to burn out and overwhelm the little troop at the grove before the column from Frayne could possibly reach the spot. They had even anticipated the probable effort of the command to check the flames, and had told off some fifty braves to open concentric fire on any party that should rush into the open with that object in view.
"Steady! Hold hard!" shouted a couple of voices, and the two young fellow-pupils, who had followed, leaped down through a broken window, from whence, hidden by the ivy, they had watched the fray. "You second Dick Frayne," cried the first, "and I'll see to Mark."
"I have told you," was the reply, "I'll lend you all I can scrape together, or go with you straight to Mr Draycott." "Once more," said Mark, with an ugly, vicious look in his eyes, "will you come in to old Simpson's and sign?" Richard Frayne sat looking firmly at his cousin, but made no reply. "All right," said Mark, with a laugh; "then the game's up! I shall make a bolt of it, and go to sea.
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