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Bat jerked the pack from the lead-horse and produced clothing and blankets, dripping wet from the saturation he had given them in the poison spring. While the others repeated the process of the previous camp, Bat worked over the horses which stood in a dejected row with their noses to the base of the cut-bank.
Endicott made the sack of provisions fast to the saddle of the lead-horse, and assisted Alice to mount. "I'll kill ye fer this!" wailed the man; "I'll I'll " but the two rode away with the futile threats ringing in their ears.
He rode back to turn the lead-horse from climbing a ridge where he did not want the herd to follow. He did not lend Happy Jack his gun, and for that reason perhaps Jakie remained alive and unpunctured until the first of the riders came loping in to camp. The first riders happened to be Pink and Big Medicine.
Tex, with the lead-horse in tow, rode ahead, his attention fixed on the trail, and the others followed, single file. Alice's eyes strayed from the backs of her two companions to the mountains that rolled upward from the little valley, their massive peaks and buttresses converted by the wizardry of moonlight into a fairyland of wondrous grandeur.
She pulled the reins over the little wild mare's head and tried to pull her ax from its sheath. But her benumbed fingers refused to act. "Keep moving, Jude!" urged Douglas. "Just till I can get a fire started. Don't stop walking for a moment!" When at last a blaze was going before the rocks, Doug unrolled the blankets from the lead-horse and wrapped Judith in them.
The driver of the lead team, fifth caisson, was shot clear out of his saddle, all the wheels going over him and grinding him to pulp; piece and limber whirled into a lane on a dead run, and Arthur Wye, driving the swing team, clinging to the harness and crawling out along the traces, gained the saddle of the lead-horse. "Bully for you!" shouted McDunn.
And he cut his spirited lead-horse, until it leaped forward suddenly, as though to vent his excitement, and, setting his small white teeth sternly, with an eye like a burning coal, looked forward into space, his whole face contracting.
In this caricature, of which thousands of copies were sown broadcast throughout Paris, the Emperor of Austria was to be seen sitting in an elegant open carriage; the Emperor Alexander sat on the coachman's box, the Regent of England as postilion on the lead-horse, and the King of Prussia stood up behind as a lackey.
Here I'll give yeh a h'ist." The lead-horse nickered softly, and reaching up, the girl stroked his velvet nose. "He's woman broke," repeated the cowboy, and as Alice looked up her eyes strayed past him to the window of the coach where they met Endicott's steady gaze. The next moment Purdy was lifting her into the saddle, and without a backward glance the two rode out across the flat.
It had been good for them and good for me. It is always good to do a difficult thing. And no one has ever fought a mountain and won who is not the better for it. The mountains are not for the weak or the craven, or the feeble of mind or body. We went on, to the distant tinkle of the bell on the lead-horse of the pack-train.
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