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They are, in truth, passing along the same path from which the travellers have late deflected; only in the counter direction. Now, for the first time, a suspicion occurs to Hamersley, shared by the Texan, giving both far greater uneasiness than if the soldiers were heading direct towards them.
I knewed the Horned Lizard 'ud be after some trick." "What?" inquire several voices. "Look whar that lot's stannin' out yonder. Can't ye guess what they're at, Frank Hamersley?" "No. I only see that they have bows in their hands." "An' arrers, too. Don't you obsarve them wroppin' somethin' round the heads o' the arrers looks like bits o' rags? Aye, rags it air, sopped in spittles and powder.
Hamersley feels as if fresh blood had been infused into his veins; and he is ready to spring to his feet at the same time as his comrade. "Frank! d'ye think ye kin go a little furrer now?" is the interrogatory put by the hunter. "Yes, Walt; miles further," is the response. "I feel as if I could walk across the grandest spread of prairie." "Good!" ejaculates the guide.
Hamersley and I did not reach until an hour after dark. The night was cloudy, and I was unable to get any observations, but luckily at daybreak obtained meridian altitudes of Jupiter, which placed Manginie Spring in South latitude 30 degrees 21 minutes. 31st.
The peon is unable to answer it. He does not think they are prisoners certainly not Conchita. She is only being taken back along with her mistress. About the senorita, his mistress, he heard some words pass between Uraga and Roblez, but without comprehending their signification. In his own heart Hamersley can supply it does so with dark, dire misgivings.
As the weapon is wrested from his grasp, he sees standing before him the man of all others he has most reason to fear Gil Uraga! All night long Hamersley and the hunter remain upon the summit of the mound. It is a night of dread anxiety, seeming to them an age. They think not of taking sleep they could not. There is that in their minds that would keep them wakeful if they had not slept for a week.
With a thrill of joy he recognises the handwriting of Hamersley, which he knows. He is not much of a scholar; still, he can read, and at a glance makes out the first four words, full of pleasant meaning: "Saved by an Angel!" He reads no farther, till after giving utterance to a "hurrah!" that might have been heard many miles over the Staked Plain.
"Uraga!" exclaims Hamersley, the word coming mechanically from his red lips; while a cloud passes over his brow, and a red flush flecks the pallor on his cheeks. "Captain Uraga! 'Twas he?" "It was." "The scoundrel! I thought so."
Nor, for that matter, has Hamersley. The peon's presence is something to assist in the explanation. It clears up everything. Hamersley breathes hard as the dark shadows sweep through his soul. For a long time absorbed in thought, he utters scarce an ejaculation.
To look on something besides a portrait that hung upon the wall, underneath her own. It was a small thing a mere photographic carte-de-visite. But it was the likeness of one who had a large place in her brother's heart, if not in her own. In hers, how could it? It was the photograph of a man she had never seen Frank Hamersley.
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