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Updated: June 27, 2025
Again they parted, Bud returning to the harness-room, where he would have to finish his work by lantern-light. "Gee, but that was close!" murmured Bud, feeling his way through the darkness. "Just about one more word and I'd have given away the show completely." He paused under a cottonwood as a gleam of light from the open bunk-house door showed through the leaves.
Brilliantly illuminated, in addition to the permanent decorations, a life-sized jockey in bronze bas-relief and numerous coaching pictures, was the work of the florist. The large orchestra was upstairs surrounding the open carriage trap, which was concealed from below by masses of smilax. The harness-room was made attractive with rugs and easy chairs for the card players.
As it was, the harness-room stove was kept going at night to insure warmth in the stable; and a large box, too deep for Jan to climb out from, and snugly lined with carefully dried hay, was provided for his use o' nights. Just at first, the deeply interested Betty tried feeding her new pet with warm milk food in a baby's bottle.
On the right of the large door by which we had entered the inner shop was a small room, which had probably once served as a harness-room, for through this another door gave on to the yard, though this exit was evidently never used, for the door was fixed by screws.
His shrill voice quavered out bravely. "What" Adoniram sniffed "what is it smells like cookin'?" said he. He stepped forward and looked in the open door of the harness- room. Then he turned to his wife. His old bristling face was pale and frightened. "What on airth does this mean, mother?" he gasped. "You come in here, father," said Sarah. She led the way into the harness-room and shut the door.
He waited long enough to enable his companions to secure their places in the trees, and then opened a window, which enabled him to obtain a safe position for himself. While he was waiting, he took a couple of horse-blankets from the harness-room, and fastened them up before the only two windows in the loft.
He gave a great puff at his cigar, and sighed profoundly; then he turned on his heel and went off toward the stables to forget it all. The man was away, exercising one of the horses in the long paddock; but there was something stirring in the harness-room, so he went in. There was a little, dripping wet figure standing over a great bucket, and dipping something in and out with charming vigour.
Cheer up, it's all right, go in and win there's a lion-hearted Pitman! At Cannon Street they enquired for Mr Brown's piano, which had duly arrived, drove thence to a neighbouring mews, where they contracted for a cart, and while that was being got ready, took shelter in the harness-room beside the stove.
Why didn't you stab that man?" But the Baron merely retorted with a lifelike affectation of snoring. For a long time the Baron lay wide awake, every sense alert, listening for the creak of a footstep on the wooden stair that led up from the harness-room to his prison.
The result was that when he strolled out of the harness-room a little later the envelope bearing the name of Sheriff Hardenberg reposed within his shirt, while the other, addressed now to a mythical "Miss Florence Denby," at an equally mythical street number in Dallas, Texas, protruded from a pocket of his chaps.
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