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"Forty-five dollars more to the good," said Mose grimly as the decision came in his favor. "See here going to take all the prizes?" asked one of the judges. "So long as you keep to my line of business," replied he. The races came next. Kintuck took first money on the straightaway dash, but lost on the long race around the pole.
I've come to buy you, and take you home," said George, with impetuous vehemence. "O, Mas'r George, ye're too late. The Lord's bought me, and is going to take me home, and I long to go. Heaven is better than Kintuck." "O, don't die! It'll kill me! it'll break my heart to think what you've suffered, and lying in this old shed, here! Poor, poor fellow!"
Cora, blushing prettily as she set the table for him, said: "We're mighty glad to see you back, Mose. Daddy said you'd never turn up again, but I held out you would." "Oh, I couldn't stay away from Kintuck and little Pink," he replied. "How'd they feed ye back there?" inquired Mrs. Reynolds. "Oh, fair to middlin' but, of course, they couldn't cook like Ma Reynolds." "Oh, you go hark!" cried Mrs.
"On old Kintuck, if his legs don't wear off." "How will you live?" "Forage where I can. Turn to and help on a 'round-up, or 'drive' where I can shoot and fish oh, I'll make it if it takes ten years." "Then what?" Mary asked, with a curious intonation. "Then I'll start for the Northwest," he replied after a little hesitation "if I live.
All these people had purpose and reward in their lives; he alone was a stray, a tramp, with no one but old Kintuck to draw him to any particular spot or keep him there. "I am outside of everything," he bitterly thought. "There is nothing for me." Yes, there was Cora and there was little Pink and then he thought of Mrs.
Catching his mane, Mose swung to the saddle, Kintuck nipped the laden cayuse, and they were off while the next best man was still worrying over the hitch. "Nine dollars to the good on that transaction," muttered Mose, as the marshal handed him a ten dollar gold piece. "The next exercise on the programme," announced Haney, "will be the roping contest.
"What is it, Topsy?" said Miss Ophelia. "Please, Missis, was dat ar state Kintuck?" "What state, Topsy?" "Dat state dey fell out of. I used to hear Mas'r tell how we came down from Kintuck." St. Clare laughed. "You'll have to give her a meaning, or she'll make one," said he. "There seems to be a theory of emigration suggested there."
He could only duplicate the deeds of those who had gone before so long as his work was governed by the marshal but when, as in the case of others, he was free to "put on frills," he did so. Tackling the heaviest and wildest steer, he dropped his rope over one horn and caught up one foot, then taking a loose turn about his pommel he spoke to Kintuck.
I'm wasting time; I've got to picket old Kintuck somewhere and go to work if I " He stopped abruptly and she smiled mournfully. "You needn't hesitate; tell me all about it." He sat in silence a silence that at last became a rebuke. She arose. "Well, suppose we go out to supper; we can talk all the better there."
Hour after hour he kept this steady, circling walk, till the other horses were weary, till Kintuck ceased to snort, till the blaze of excitement passed out of his eyes, till he walked with a wondering backward glance, as if to ask: "Two-legged creature, why do you so persistently follow me?" The cowboys jeered at first, but after a time they began to marvel at the dogged walk of the youth.
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