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Updated: June 12, 2025
I have pined for the music of the hoof-beats that would thrill me if they passed over my grave." From the little nursery comes the lusty insistence of a child clamoring for his desires. Very gently she releases herself from his embrace. Then this Madonna of the Range goes proudly to the mothering of her first-born.
Yip!"; the ponies, of all colors, jostled and plunged, and their hoof-beats drummed; above the tossing crests bare arms upheld a fringe of shaking guns and bows and lances. Unless he had been at Beecher's Island and witnessed the charge of Roman Nose, not a man of Adobe Walls ever had seen so terrible a spectacle as this, under the pink sky of the fresh June morning.
There was no time to halt, for Calhoun heard the rapid hoof-beats of horses in pursuit. Coming to a cross-road, he sprang from his horse and struck him a vicious blow which sent him galloping wildly down the road. In a moment a squad of Federal cavalry passed in swift pursuit. Calhoun breathed freer after the trampling of their horses died away in the distance.
They swept swiftly nearer, nearer. What what was this? No fancy. Nearer, nearer. No fancy this. Nearer, nearer. These ah, Mother of God are real hoof-beats. They are coming; they are at hand; they are at the door of the church; they are here! She sprang up, facing around. The ceremony was interrupted. The frightened nuns were gathering about the Mother Superior.
Then the hoof-beats stopped, and she uttered a gasping cry, all her nameless terror for the moment renewed. A man jumped to the ground and, with a word to his animal, stooped over her. She shrank from him in unreasoning panic. "Who is it? Who is it?" she sobbed. He answered her instantly, rather curtly. "I Baring. What's the matter? Something gone wrong?"
"Before I come to you, Judith girl," he whispered to himself as he went, "I'll have to have little talk with Bayne Trevors." Bud Lee, riding alone toward the Western Lumber Camp, turned in his saddle to glance back as he heard hoof-beats behind him. It was Carson, and the old cattleman was riding hard. Lee frowned. Then for an instant a smile softened his stern eyes.
Although the road from Dyadin eastward leads steadily upward, they fancy that nothing less than a wild, sweeping gallop will enable them to accomplish their fell purpose; I listen to their clattering hoof-beats dying away in the dreamy distance, with a grin of positively malicious satisfaction, hoping sincerely that they will keep galloping onward for the next twenty miles.
"If what he says is true," said Brown, as the clattering hoof-beats died away, "and I'm game to take my oath he wouldn't lie to me, I'd give more than a little to have him with me for the next few hours!" The men came clustering round him now, anxious for an explanation. They had held their tongues while Juggut Khan was there, because they happened to know Brown too well to do otherwise.
When a little later Betty heard hoof-beats in the ranchhouse yard the sounds of a horseman making a leisurely approach she left the door and went out upon the porch. She knew who the horseman was; she had seen him from the window of her room when she had gone upstairs to get the money for Calumet.
And sometimes in a rocky place, the hoof-beats of the horses, the noise of the wheels, struck an echo from spur to spur.
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