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Updated: June 3, 2025
'But all hosses ain't like this mare. "'They are not, suh! says ole man Sanford. 'Noh were they intended to be! But few of us are ordained foh the heights. However, he says, puttin' his hand on my shoulder, 'Ah should not censure you too strongly, young man. In fohcing yoh hawsses to simulate qualities they do not possess, you are only a part of yoh times.
They're on foot now. Left their hawsses, I expect, down by the river." Quietly the two men stepped from the back door of the cabin and swiftly ascended the little trail that rose at a sharp acclivity to the spring. At some height above the cabin, they crouched behind boulders and watched the cautious approach of the enemy. "Not taking any chances, are they?" murmured Gordon. Steve laughed softly.
I'll take all the hawsses down to the waterhole, and go on to the ranch. You can look for me back at sunup. The moon rises between three and four." "Genevieve, will you make out the list? Sit down and eat, Kid." "Well, just a snack, Miss Chuckie. Wouldn't stop for that if the hawsses didn't know the trail well enough to go down in the dark."
"There is a time coming," said the Virginian, "when I'll want somebody that knows how to get the friendship of hawsses. I'll want him to handle some special hawsses the Judge has plans about. Judge Henry would pay fifty a month for that." "I can make more," said Shorty, this time with stubbornness. "Well, yes. Sometimes a man can when he's not worth it, I mean. But it don't generally last."
"It is on the shortest trail to that gulch, and you'll not have time to get your second load farther before dark." The puncher started back. But Isobel, who had come riding up with Genevieve, called out to stop him: "Wait, Kid. It is almost noon. You must take lunch with us." "Can't leave those hawsses standing with the packs, Miss Chuckie, if they're to make another trip today," he replied.
"We must prepare to stay right here on High Mesa until they do finish!" declared Isobel. "It will be impossible to go back to the ranch tomorrow if they are still in that frightful place! Kid will have to take the hawsses down to the waterhole. He shall go on home, and tomorrow morning fetch us cream and eggs and everything you need.
He's like a rocking-chair." "No," she refused. But she smiled, by no means ill pleased at his solicitude for her comfort. She halted the broncos, and said cordially: "Tie the saddle hawsses to the back rail, and pile in. We may as well be sociable." He hastened to accept the invitation. She moved over to the left side of the seat and relinquished the lines to him.
At this she turned entirely pink, and he, noticing, went on quietly: "I'll catch up one of Taylor's hawsses. Taylor knows me." "No. I don't really think I could do that. But thank you. Thank you very much. I must go now and see how Mrs. Taylor's fire is." "I'll look after that, ma'am. I'd like for yu' to go ridin' mighty well. Yu' have no babies this mawnin' to be anxious after."
"There's been a man camped in hyeh inside a month," he said, kicking up a rag of red flannel. "White man and two hawsses. Ours have went up his old tracks." It was not easy for Balaam to speak yet, and he kept his silence. But he remembered that Shorty had spoken of a trapper who had started for Sunk Creek.
We've got to ride twenty miles for fresh hawsses and these have got to have a little rest." They unsaddled and picketed, then strolled to the spring. "I've been thinking that maybe we have made a mistake. Isn't it possible the man with Miss Kinney is not Struve?" asked Neill. "That's easy proved. You saw him this mo'ning." The lieutenant went down into his pocket once more for a photograph.
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