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"Jim Hutchins's herders must have sneaked back over by Iron Mountain," suggested Fletcher. "Jim Hutchins," mused California John; "where is he now? Know?" "I heard tell he was at Stockton." "Well, that's all right then. If Jim was around, he might start a shootin' row, and we don't want any of that." "Well, I don't know as I'm afraid of Jim Hutchins," said Ross Fletcher.
With another sun, I shall call the council. It will talk the herders' eyes open. The young men have closed ears in these days. The cold makes their bones stiff. Brother, when we were young we could see a horse pass in the night. We could smell him. We could tell if he had a man on his back." Big Hand gave wise consideration to his companion's statement, saying it was as he spoke.
"What do you want with so much?" She reached for a pad and pencil to make a note. "Ticks. I never seen the beat of 'em. I bet I picked a thousand off me a'ready this season. They ain't satisfied with grabbin' me from a sagebrush as I go by, but when they gits wind of me they trails me up and jumps me. All the herders is complainin'." "How's the new herder doing?" Bowers's face clouded.
Presently she heard bells, several bells, and then she saw a large flock of sheep and goats come straggling over the crest of a hill. Very likely it was the other herders who were calling. Lisbeth saw two straw hats rise above the hill, and by degrees two tall boys seemed to grow up out of the hilltop, boys about as big as Jacob.
"The herders should not stop the pack-train, if I had my will," declared one of the settlers with a belligerent note. "No, no," proclaimed another; "not if it takes all the men at Blue Lick Station to escort it!" "Those blistered redcoats at Fort Prince George are a deal too handy to be called on by such make-bates as the herders on the Keowee River." "Fudge!
Some herders put strychnine in the carcasses of dead lambs and poison a few of the coyotes; most of them are too clever to be caught that way, though. The government has also killed many. Perhaps to-night, Don, you may have a share in the good work. But I warn you do not send a bullet through one of my dogs, thinking his barking is the yelp of one of these range thieves."
He saw abundant evidences on the great highway that the army was marching toward Vera Cruz, and as before he traveled on a line parallel with it, but at least a mile away. He passed two sheep herders, but he displayed the machete, and whistling carelessly went on. They did not follow, and he was sure that they took him for a bandit whom it would be wise to let alone.
Shortly afterward, when we were encamped on the Republican River near the mouth of the Beaver, we heard the yells of Indians, followed by shots, in the vicinity of our mule herd, which had been driven down to water. Presently one of the herders, with an arrow still quivering in his flesh, came dashing into the camp. My horse was close at hand.
He had desisted in his efforts to gain the herd early in the evening and had rambled off and rested during the first part of the night, and the herders breathed softly lest they should stir him to renewed trials.
They came on steadily, the four herders and Oleson walking reluctantly ahead, with Andy Green and the Native Son riding relentlessly in the rear, their guns held unwaveringly in a line with the backs of their captives. Andy was carrying a rifle, evidently taken from one of the men Oleson, they judged for the guilty one.
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