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And the cause of his awakening was the sound of a horse rapidly ridden, and, evidently, approaching the place where he and his cousins had camped for the night. "Who's there?" cried Bud suddenly, and without preface. Under the blanket his hand sought his weapon. "Who's there!" Quickly the galloping hoofbeats came to a pause.
"That's better!" shouted Tom, but it is doubtful if she heard him, for the rattling of the wagon and the hoofbeats of the horse drowned all other sounds. "Sit still!" he shouted. "I'll stop the horse for you!" Trying to imagine himself in a desperate race, in order to excite himself to greater speed, Tom continued on. He was now even with the tail-board of the wagon, and slowly creeping up.
Every light in the warehouse or about it and all in the village had been extinguished, but the moonlight was clear and more stars had come into the full sky. "We can see well enough for a fight," murmured Captain Sherburne. Everybody could hear the hoofbeats now, and again there was a stir in the ranks of the defenders.
Then came a clear, sharp difference when the horse passed from the sage trail to the hard-packed ground of the grove. It became a ringing run swift in its bell-like clatterings, yet singular in longer pause than usual between the hoofbeats of a horse. "It's Wrangle!... It's Wrangle!" cried Jane Withersteen. "I'd know him from a million horses!"
When we had gone a hundred yards and the house became concealed by trees, Bell guided me into the thick grove that lined the road and back through them toward the house again. We stopped within twenty yards of the house, concealed by the dark shadows. I wondered at this maneuver. And then I heard in the distance coming down the road beyond the house, the regular hoofbeats of a team of horses.
At this juncture hoofbeats sounded sharply on the trail behind them. Racey turned in a flesh, his right hand dropping. But it was only Lanpher and the stranger riding out of a belt of pines whose deep and lusty soughing had drowned the noise of their approach. Lanpher and his comrade rode by at a trot. The former mumbled a greeting to Racey but barely glanced at the girl.
Chester did as Hal suggested, and the party moved on again, but more slowly now. It was perhaps half an hour later, when hoofbeats were heard behind. "Here they come!" cried Hal, and dug his heels into his horse's side. The animal responded nobly, but five minutes later it became apparent that they would be unable to distance their pursuers at this speed. The hoofbeats became plainer.
Within a few hours, the whole city was in a state of excitement over my presence. "I was relaxing quietly in the evening, when I heard the hoofbeats of galloping horses. They stopped in front of my dwelling place. In came a number of tall, turbaned policemen. "I was taken aback. 'All things are possible unto these creatures of human law, I thought.
The greasers will be coming pretty soon. I must get along some way." He got up and walked a few steps and again sat down. There was no sound of a pursuit and the hoofbeats of Mr. Black's horses had ceased. "They have reached the grove," Adrian muttered. "I must get there some way." Once more he arose to his feet and took several steps and then sank down in a faint, so great was the pain.
"That's Stacy Brown, I'll wager my hat. I'll bet Ned is scolding him, too." Ned was. He was at that instant threatening to break Chunky's head if he opened his mouth again before they reached the camping place. Shortly after that Butler's keen ears caught the sound of hoofbeats. He stepped back into the shadows, the prisoner eyeing him inquiringly. Tad did not take the trouble to explain.
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