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There would have been an interval in the brief walk when the advantage would have been shifted to him, and he would have seized it with the quickness of lightning. The manifest duty of Jack was to shout to Hank Hazletine and bring him to the spot.
He would consent to no attempt to pay them a ransom until he knew beyond peradventure that their part of the contract would be fulfilled. "If they try any crooked work," he muttered, with deadly earnestness, "both of 'em have got to settle with Hank Hazletine." He gave no thought to Jack Dudley, for he took it for granted that he had been able to look out for himself during the day.
"Wal, we can crowd a good 'eal into two or three weeks, and I won't let you go to sleep in the daytime I'll promise you that." Hazletine produced a brierwood pipe and pressed some tobacco in the bowl. Although the motion of their ponies caused quite a brisk breeze, he lighted a match and communicated the flame to the tobacco without checking the speed of his animal.
"The buffaloes have disappeared." "The right name of the animal is the bison," suggested Garrison; "they have been slaughtered in pure wantonness. It is a crime, the way in which they have been extirpated." "There are a few of 'em left, deep among the mountains," said Hazletine, "where no one has happened to find 'em, but it won't be long afore they'll all be wiped out.
Hank Hazletine was among those who engaged in the hunt, but neither he nor his friends succeeded in finding the place. The veteran was not quite ready to abandon hope, and when he found himself in the section once more, on the hunt in which he acted as guide for the boys, he determined to make a decisive exploration without letting any one know his secret.
Finally he turned away and made as if to pass up the canyon, after the manner of Hank Hazletine. He leaped out upon one of the rocks, then bounded as lightly to another, and then to a third, which took him within the canyon. The others watched him without protest or action.
Until that moment he had been running straight away from Fred, but now, of necessity, he turned partly toward him. Recalling the words of Hank Hazletine, Fred aimed at a point just back of the foreleg, as it reached forward.
Bill Tozer started with an angry exclamation. "Is that so?" he asked in amazement. "I thought it was the other fellow's father." "How should you know anything about it anyway?" demanded Hazletine, who made no attempt to conceal his dislike of the man. "I'd like to know where you picked up so much knowledge 'bout these two younkers."
"Go inside, and I reckon Ira can give you some medicine fur that appetite Hank spoke about." Hazletine led the way to the small covered porch where Ira Garrison, another cattleman, rose to his feet and shook hands with the boys, expressing his pleasure at receiving a visit from them. All three of the arrivals sat down at the front, while Ira passed inside and lighted an oil-lamp.
For hours Hazletine and Jack lolled in this primitive camp, the cowman smoking his pipe most of the time, while the two discussed over and over again the various phases of the momentous business that engaged their thoughts and to which they yearned to devote their utmost energies.
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