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Payne turned swiftly. The engineer's keen eyes had picked out three small specks bobbing up and down out on the prairie and even at the distance he knew them for easily riding horsemen. "It didn't take him long to tell his friends," said Payne. "Hig, you go down to the other side of the boys. My guess is that they'll try to terrorize our labor. If they drive this bunch off the news will spread.
The boy Henry, following, as his habit was, his bigger brother Charles, had taken part in the battle, and had felt his courage much depressed by seeing one of his trustiest leaders, Henry Higginson "Bully Hig," his school name struck by a stone over the eye, and led off the field bleeding in rather a ghastly manner.
But another thing the maps all agree on is that the old trading post of Legrue, which is the end of the railroad's survey line, is about forty-five miles north of this hammock." "Sure. And look at what's between 'em on the map there." "The Devil's Playground." "That's one of the spots down here nobody's been through." "Well, Hig, I suspect you and I are going to be the first to try to do it.
The veins were swelling in Higgins' thick neck and his face rivaled his fiery poll in redness. He came toward Garman with quick, eager steps. "Hey, Hig!" laughed Payne. "Are you going to prove that he's right?" "I came to see you about that Indian, Payne," said Garman, dismissing Higgins emphatically. "Not that I'm interested personally. Others are. Didn't he come back to you?" "No."
"You're right, Hig. And I don't know whether I want to just take my money back and clear out even if they'd offer it to me." "Well" Higgins' chuckle came forth sleepily "it might be made something of at that. Alligators? No. Fish? No. There's the water buffalo. That's never been tried down here. Hah! I see a fortune in it. 'Buy a wonderful Water Buffalo Ranch and Get Rich Quick. He Lives on Water.
"There was a good boy, that Indian; and if you've done him dirt I'll beat your greasy head off with your left leg!" "Hold on, Hig!" Payne held his engineer back. "There's no sign of a hand on his throat." "But look at his face! Can't you tell by that?" Roger bent over the Indian and felt for a heartbeat. "He's alive!" "Is he?" laughed Garman. "That's important perhaps to Willy."
At an island Higgins stopped and stared drunkenly at the salt water gleaming among the mangrove roots. "Steady, Hig," warned Payne. "What?" "It's salt, you know." "Oh, yes. 'At's so." They crept on. "Don't care if it is salt; I'm going to have some water," said Higgins suddenly. "Look at those damn buzzards back there. They know it's salt.
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