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"Dot Irishmans vos so fiery as der hair mit his head," he muttered to himself. "I dink I vos keep out of sight bis he vos cool off, and den Mine gracious, Bumpkin, var did you come from? I dinks you vos left behind py Arkansas City." For there had suddenly appeared before Humpendinck the form of the dunce, hatless and with his black hair tumbled over his face in all directions.
"If you go after him you'll get no chance to hunt up your niece," began Dick, when the city was left behind. "That's true, lad." Jack Rasco's face grew troubled. "I don't know wot's best ter do. It ain't fair ter let yer follow Vorlange alone; an' with only one hoss hullo, wot does this mean? Carl Humpendinck, an' wavin' his hand to us like he war crazy."
"Pawnee ought to haf a medal alreatty." "It's a stattoo we will put up fer him in Oklahomy," said Delaney. "A stattoo wid Pawnee a-ridin' loike mad to the new lands, wid the Homestead act in wan hand an' a bundle o' sthakes in th' other, an' under the stattoo we'll put the wurruds, 'Pawnee Brown, the St. Patrick av Oklahomy!" "Ach! go on mit yer St. Patrick!" howled Humpendinck.
Soon Rasco was tearing over the prairie, followed by Humpendinck, Delaney, Clemmer and by Dick, who borrowed a horse from another boomer. The trail left by Yellow Elk was easily followed to the vicinity of Honnewell, but here it led away to the southwest and was swallowed up among the bushes and rocks leading down into the ravine previously mentioned.
"It would seem so, men," answered the great scout. "No, I'll be careful now since the tide has turned. In less than sixty days I'll wager all I am worth we'll march into Oklahoma without the first sign of trouble." It did not take the news long to travel to the boomers' camp, and great was the rejoicing upon every side. "Dot's der pest ding I vos hear for a month," said Humpendinck.
"But vot goot vill it do to vait by Honnvell?" questioned Carl Humpendinck, a German boomer. "We'll not wait very long there," answered Pawnee Brown. So the word went around that the boomers would move in an hour. This was not actually true, but it was necessary to spread some report of this kind in order to make the slow ones hustle.
"Delaney ought to know better. But yer can't tell the Irish anything." "Humpendinck went with him," put in Dunbar, who had brought the news. "Both the Irishman and the German are smart enough in their way," answered Pawnee Brown. "But they've made a mistake. Cal and Dunbar, you continue at the head, and I'll ride across country and head Delaney and his crowd back through the Allen trail.
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