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A moment later the little glade, with the smoldering embers of the lodge fire to prick out its limits in dusky red, was empty, and on the midnight stillness of the forest the minishing hoofbeats of the horses came fainter and fainter till the distance swallowed them. Then it was that my poor lad, famine-mad and frenzied, rose up to curse me bitterly.
And when I came to the crossing my horse pricked his ears and snorted, so that I knew there were horsemen about, and I reined up and waited in the lane. I could hear the quick hoofbeats of two steeds, and all the air was full of the sound of alarm bells, for the evening was very still.
He wanted it to occur, for if he could secure the loot he could destroy the train robbers surely. All he wanted now was tangible evidence. He lay back breathlessly in the bushes, waiting. Soon he heard the rapid hoofbeats of horses, then a crashing in the bushes. These noises were approaching him rapidly. The crisis was at hand.
At the same moment he turned to peer anxiously down the road ahead, whence came now on the still twilight the thudding hoofbeats of a galloping horse, rapidly growing louder. His mechanical instincts awake, however, Frank paid no attention to the approaching horseman.
The rest ran hither and thither, afraid to fire in the darkness, and before they could rally, or could find out what we were really after, every man of us was mounted and away. We had a good twenty minutes' start, for the noise among the Russians drowned the sound of our hoofbeats. We had only one street of the town to traverse before we struck the highway.
Alas! what avails it that five miles away in the heart of the city the hoofbeats of a company of cavalry resound rhythmically over the flagstones? Danton and his Northern riders are straining every nerve, galloping their steeds furiously eyes fixed on the seeming-impossible goal.
Now and then one of the horses cleared its nostrils with a snort, but on the whole they went in perfect silence with the short grass silencing the hoofbeats, and never a word passed from man to man. Beyond doubt, if it had not been for that same silence, if it had not been for the slowness with which they drifted through the dark, what follows could never have happened.
Another minute and I would have been right up chose to him close enough for him to see me, perhaps. But I hardly think he has heard me, so I'll keep right on." He set out again, keeping his horse at a walk. Suddenly the hoofbeats ahead ceased. Wild let the horse walk right on, for the sounds that came from Spitfire's hoofs could hardly be heard, the ground being very soft just there.
Bets were made and challenges given. On the tracks nearby horses, not entered in the races for that day, were being exercised. Their hoofbeats made a kind of music that made Jim's blood tingle. Negroes laughed and horses put their heads out at stall doors. The stallions neighed loudly and the heels of some impatient steed rattled against the sides of a stall.
Always, always now since yesterday morning, he found himself listening for hoofbeats listening for the returning man of science who would bring a message of caution from the fountain head of Sunlight Patch; and, in this humor of expectancy, wandered out to the grouped chairs to be alone.
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