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Updated: July 4, 2025
"You are as good a Confederate as I am." "Then how does it come that I am colloguing with a Yankee horse-thief?" exclaimed Rodney, who wanted to learn how much the woman really knew about him and his friend. "That is something I do not pretend to understand," was the answer. "But there must be some sort of an arrangement between you, for one is riding the other's horse.
"So we make the best of things, and ride to the fair in a wagon that will hold a village of people," concluded Polly. "I think it will be heaps of fun to camp right in town where crowds of other folks are camping," said Eleanor, giggling. "It is. You never know who your next-door neighbor is going to be," laughed Polly. "Once, we camped right next to a horse-thief who was wanted by the sheriff.
That should be enough to awaken the law along the railroad without help from Thomas, and Trowbridge knew that such action would be backed up by his associates. He had no trouble on this score, however, for Sheriff Thomas was away on the trail of a horse-thief, and the deputy in charge of the jail was of sturdier character than his chief. "Will I help you, Lem?" he exclaimed.
I had accomplished one thing the identification of the prospective horse-thief and I satisfied myself with that. As for Leroy, I knew I should have to trust to some stroke of good fortune. The comfort of the rocker appealed to me, and, with my hands on its arms, I leaned back and, in spite of the talking all around me, was soon lost in reflection.
The fighting trapper, the border bandit, the horse-thief and rustler, in whose stomach legitimately acquired beef would cause colic were the Indians' first acquaintances who wore a white skin, and he did not know that they were not of the best type.
He submitted sullenly to his captors; his companion fugitive and horse-thief gave up the protracted struggle with a feeling not unlike relief. Even the hot and revengeful victors were content. They had taken their men alive.
He knew, however, that its contents must be of great value and produced it to prove to the reporter that the young prisoner whom they were discussing was something more than a mere horse-thief.
This discovery unnerved Slone. It meant so much. And if Slone had any hope or reason to doubt that these strangers had taken up the trail for good, the next few miles dispelled it. They were trailing Creech. Suddenly Slone gave a wild start, which made Wildfire plunge. "CORDTS!" whispered Slone and the cold sweat oozed out of every pore. These canyons were the hiding-places of the horse-thief.
He gave a hundred roubles to his assistants, and with the rest left for another town where he gave way to dissipation in company of friends of both sexes. The police traced his movements, and when at last he was arrested and put into prison he had hardly anything left out of the money which he had stolen. IVAN MIRONOV had become a very clever, fearless and successful horse-thief.
The colonel joined them then, the loud-spoken benediction of the horse-thief following him. There was a flush of indignation in his face and fire in his eyes. "I'll expose the scoundrel; I'll show him that he can't rob both the county and the helpless men that misfortune throws into his hands!" the colonel declared. He gave his hand to Joe in his ceremonious fashion.
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