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Kearny The presidio Appointed Alcalde Gen. Kearny's proclamation Arrival of Col. Stevenson's regiment Horse-thief Indians Administration of justice in California Sale of lots in San Francisco. Wherever the Anglo-Saxon race plant themselves, progress is certain to be displayed in some form or other.
But there was still a third prodigy to be wondered at. The third prisoner was dragged from among the horses to the fire, where he was almost immediately recognised by half a dozen different warriors, as the redoubted and incorrigible horse-thief, Captain Stackpole.
An Adventure with a Horse-thief. Creeping Serpent. Hints on Horse-stealing. Dust in the Distance. Hal recognizes his Pony. A Good Shot. Its Effect. The Prairie on Fire. Imminent Peril. Hard Work. Comanche Springs. Fort Davis. A Pretty Girl, Patsey McQuirk. Ned kills an Antelope. Don Ramon. The Camp attacked. Juanita captured. A Brutal Murder. Once more on the Trail. We lose it. The Hide for Life.
I hear the poor man tells it in his distant house of bondage." "What's this?" Levin inquired, seeing a strange structure of beams on a cape or swell to the right, in sight of the dark forms of a town on the next crest beyond. "A gallows," said the Quaker, "on which a horse-thief will be hanged to-morrow. To steal a horse is death; to steal a fellow-man is nothing."
"You had better not refuse." "You wouldn't dare to shoot at me." "Don't you be too sure of that," put in Ralph. "You must remember that father could have had you shot down for a horse-thief, had he wanted to do so. I don't want any trouble with you, but I am bound to have my game."
"Is that what you take me for," exclaimed Rodney, "a horse-thief and an abolitionist besides? You certainly are mistaken, for I haven't got that low down in the world yet. Jeff, you are the only man in the party who seems to have a level head on his shoulders, and I wish you would explain this thing to me. Begin at the beginning so that I may know just how the case stands."
"If Jeff is too busy I'll take you myself," she told Beaudry. "Oh, Jeff won't be too busy. He can take a half-day off," put in his father. When Charlton left, Beulah followed him as far as the porch. "Do you think Mr. Street is a horse-thief that you ask him so many questions?" she demanded indignantly. He looked straight at her. "I don't know what he is, Beulah, but I'm going to find out."
Thereupon he told her what he had heard from the horse-thief concerning Dhat ed Dewahi, how she was then in their land, on her way to Baghdad, and added, "It was she who slew my uncle and grandfather, and needs must I avenge them and wipe out our reproach."
When in answer to her eager questions the new-comers told her that the young desperado whom she had so nearly admitted to her house was a horse-thief, who, but a short time before, had stolen the animal now tied to her front fence, at the point of a revolver from the man who was leading him to water, she said she wouldn't have believed that such a mere boy could be so great a villian.
He was told that the owner was the "best judge of horse-flesh in the country." "Small wonder," added his informant, "for they say as a young man out in California he was a horse-thief, and only saved himself by eloping with some rich farmer's daughter. But he's a straight-out and respectable man now, whose word about horses can't be bought; and as for his wife, she's a beauty!
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