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Silver and Joses went back to Cuckmere by the same train from Brighton. The young man was well-established in a first-class smoker, and the train was about to start when the fat man came puffing along the platform. He was very hot; and out of his pocket bulged a brown paper parcel. The paper had burst and the head of a wooden mallet was exposed. Silver, quiet in his corner, remarked that mallet.
I stood looking on at their devilry till I felt as if I couldn't bear it no longer, and then all at once I recollected the powder, and I thought that if I could put a bullet through the keg it would blow it up, and them too." "And did you, Joses?" "Well, I did, Master Bart, but it took me a long while for it.
She reported later to Mat what Mrs. Haggard had told her and what she had replied to Mrs. Haggard. Old Mat agreed. "She can bite all right," he said. "Trust Boy." And Boy, as she walked down the hillside on leaving Mr. Silver and the old mare, felt like biting. She was annoyed with Mr. Silver, annoyed with Joses, and, above all, annoyed with herself.
They'd have had no end of a job to dig down in this stony ground. But you've killed the bear among you?" "Yes; she's dead enough." "That's well. Who fired the shot as finished her? Don't say you let Juan or Sam, or I won't forgive you." "I fired the last, and brought her down," said Bart quietly enough. "That's right," said Joses, "that's right; you ought to be a good shot now."
The poor brutes after much fasting were where they could eat their fill, and though Joses and his men drove them from one place, they blundered back to another, lowing, bellowing, and getting more and more excited, but never a step nearer to their corral. And all this while the Apaches were coming on at full speed, sweeping over the level plain like a cloud. The Doctor grew frantic.
Joses was right, for the charge was not pushed home, the savages galloping only sufficiently near to come to the help of their friends; and doubtless they would have carried off their dead, but they encountered so fierce a fire from the rock that they were glad to retreat, leaving several of their number motionless upon the plain.
Now he recalled that when he lay down to sleep the two offenders had been snoring stertorously, and it was evident that they were helplessly stupefied when the Indians came, and were taken. But Joses? Of course he was at his post, and the question now was, would he remain undiscovered, or would the Indians find the hiding-place of the horses, and after killing Joses sweep them all away?
There Joses had swiftly worked his way into a vicious set of stupid rich men, morally his equals, intellectually his inferiors, but socially and economically vastly his superiors. They were all lads from public schools who desired above all to be thought men of the world. Joses, on the other hand, was a man of the world who desired above all else to be taken for a public-school man.
But, in spite of his prosperity and the constant demand for his services in connection with the mines and the increase of the town, Bart never forgot his delight in a ramble in the wilds; and whenever time allowed, and the Beaver and some of his followers had come in from some hunting expedition, there was just a hint to Joses, when before daybreak next morning a start was made either to hunt bison and prong-horn, the black-tailed deer in the woods at the foot of the mountain, or to fish in some part of the canyon.
"Let's go and see him, Joses," cried Bart; and, shouldering their rifles, they walked past the drawn-up rows of empty waggons, whose stores were all high up on the mountain. As they reached the entrance to the corral the Indians had driven in the last pair of oxen, while the horses and mules were already in their hiding-place. "Did the Doctor order this?" asked Bart.
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