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And I propose that each keep unto his charge the child he has now under his wing." Miss Frayne quickly relinquished the dirty Demetrius. Beth shrank away from Pythagoras. As I seated myself still holding Diogenes, his brothers sprang toward him in greeting, but he spat at one, kicked at another, and pulled the hair of a third, although he patted Ptolemy's cheek gently.
He had gone too far, and there was a moment's pause; for, before he could utter the next word, Richard Frayne had given himself a violent wrench sidewise, freed himself and struck out at his assailant. But it was a feeble blow, consequent upon his crippled position, and, with a savage laugh, Mark turned at him again. "I'll teach you to talk like that!
Now, riding like mad, they veered to the northeast, and a grand race was on between the hidden three and the would-be rescuers; all heading for that part of the low-rolling prairie where the lone courier might next be expected to come into view; friends and foes alike, unconscious of the fact that, following one of those crooked arroyos with its stiff and precipitous banks, he had been turned from his true course full three quarters of a mile, and now, with a longer run, but a clear field ahead, was steering straight for Frayne.
Then how long would it be before they came charging down across the Platte, east or west of Frayne, and raiding those new ranches in the Laramie Valley? Reassuring as he meant his words to be, Marshall Dean himself looked anxiously about at the unprotected walls. Not even the customary "dugout" or underground refuge seemed to have been prepared.
It was Esther who brought lawn tennis to Frayne and found eager pupils of both sexes, but Field had been the first to meet and welcome her; had been for a brief time at the start her most constant cavalier.
Then presently they sent a lot of the Sioux Stabber's villagers and Lame Wolf's combined, by easy stages down the Platte to Laramie, and then around by Rawhide and the Niobrara to the old Red Cloud agency, there to be fed and coddled and cared for, wounded warriors and all, except a certain few, including this accomplished orator and chieftain, convalescing under guard at Frayne.
I held out my hand, which he shook solemnly, but with an injured air. "Do you mean to tell me," asked Miss Frayne, "that your father and mother went away without seeing the baby?" Ptolemy flushed a little. "You see," he explained apologetically, "mother gets woolly when she writes and she's forgotten there's Di. She thinks Demetrius is the youngest. She's mad about writing.
I feel as if that old bit of excitement was coming over me." The next minute he was out in the street, and making his way toward the High Barracks, trying to calm down his excitement and come to some decision as to how he would find out. It seemed simple enough, for what would Mark be? A lieutenant; and any corporal or sergeant would tell him whether there was a Lieutenant Frayne in the regiment.
It was at least two, possibly three, miles east of the stage-road that the solitary courier had first been sighted, and when later seen by the major and certain others of the swift gathering spectators, he was heading for Frayne, though still far east of the highroad. And now Mrs. Ray, on the north piazza, with Webb by her side and Nannie Blake, Mrs.
Then it was that the major heard what others had earlier conjectured that there had been clandestine meetings, whispered conferences and the like, within the first week of the lovely niece's coming to Fort Frayne.
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