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Lucy told him everything she knew and could think of, and, lastly, after waxing eloquent on the horses of the uplands, particularly Bostil's, she gave him a graphic account of Cordts and Dick Sears. "Horse-thieves!" exclaimed the rider, darkly. There was a grimness as well as fear in his tone. "I've heard of Sears, but not Cordts. Where does this band hang out?" "No one knows.
Slimak learned in the morning from the colonists that horse-thieves had stolen in among the horses. The peasant was taken aback. Never before had such a thing happened in the neighbourhood. The news of the attack spread like wildfire and was improved upon in every village.
Settling Old Scores. Depopulating the Border Counties. Two Examples of Grand Strategy. Capture of the "Little-More-Grape" Battery. A Woman in Sorrow. Frontier Justice. Trial before a "Lynch" Court. General Blunt's Order. Execution of Horse-Thieves. Auction Sale of Confiscated Property. Banished to Dixie.
"We were afraid the shack would be carried right up into the air," said Jessie. "And we were so worried about you thinking a tree in the woods would come down on you." "Well, one did, pretty nearly," answered Dave, and gave the particulars. "The men have all gone off after the horse-thieves," said Roger. "But Todd hasn't much hope of tracing them, for the rain washed out all the hoofmarks."
"There was the Trimble gang ten of 'em the worst outfit of desperadoes and horse-thieves in Texas, coming up the street shooting right and left. They was coming right straight for the Gray Mule. Then they got past the range of my sight, but we heard 'em ride up to the front door, and then they socked the place full of lead.
'That is right, that is a fair price, but I will not speak till I have good protection, for if the Dermotts lay their hands upon me in any boreen after sundown, or in Cool-a-vin by day, I will be left to rot among the nettles of a ditch, or hung on the great sycamore, where they hung the horse-thieves last Beltaine four years. And while he spoke he tied the reins of his garron to a bar of rusty iron that was mortared into the wall.
For a time, indeed, one might have deemed the little hamlet an outer burgh of Pandemonium itself; and the captain of horse-thieves swore, that, having long been of opinion "the red abbregynes war the rule children of Sattan, and niggers only the grand-boys, he should now hold the matter to be as settled as if booked down in an almanac, he would, 'tarnal death to him."
Half an hour of riding brought them to the edge of a woods, and here they had to proceed in single file, or "Indian fashion," as Belle expressed it. "By the way, are there any Indians around here?" asked Jessie, timidly. "A few, and they are very peaceable," answered the ranch owner's daughter. "Our only enemies are the cattle- and horse-thieves."
No wonder it was hard sometimes for an Irishman to reverence the law. They sang of hanging and things leading up to it from their childhood. I remember, too, how the boys of Iowa used to sing a song celebrating the deeds of the James boys of Missouri and about the same time we had troubles with horse-thieves.
Then restoring his knife for a second time to its sheath, listening awhile to hear if the drunken Wenonga yet stirred in his lair, and taking a survey of the sleepers at the nearly extinguished fire, he crept away, retraced his steps through the village, to the place where he had left the captain of horse-thieves, whom, to the shame of that worthy be it spoken, he found fast locked in the arms of Morpheus, and breathing such a melody from his upturned nostrils as might have roused the whole village from its repose, had not that been at least twice as sound and deep as his own.
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