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Harold Lounsbury, of whom doubtless you have heard, and who disappeared in the Clearwater district six years ago. I will be accompanied by Mr. Lounsbury's uncle, Kenly Lounsbury, and I wish you to secure the outfit and a man to cook at once. You will be paid the usual outfitter's rates for thirty days. We will arrive in Bradleyburg September twentieth by stage. Yours sincerely, Virginia Tremont.
"Why, Buckskin's a tactician; knows what the trumpet says better than I do." Night settled swiftly. Despite Lounsbury's prophecy, the temperature was not unbearable. The wind died with the glow in the west, leaving the air so still that, to the watchers among the trees, sounds from Brannon mingled distinctly with the near laughter and talk of Shanty Town. No moon rose.
Later Commodore Elliott presented Cooper with a bronze medal for this able and disinterested "defense of his brother-sailor." Professor Lounsbury's summary of Cooper's "Naval History" is: "It is safe to say, that for the period which it covers it is little likely to be superseded as the standard history of the American navy.
Dallas could not speak to him, but she, too, shook him gently by the hand. He settled his head upon Lounsbury's arm, as a child might have done. Then he looked up at Dallas. "Friend friend," he whispered softly, smiled, and with the touch of the sun on his upturned face, he slept.
Professor Lounsbury's able life of Cooper affirms of "Satanstoe": "It is a picture of colonial life and manners in New York during the eighteenth century, such as can be found drawn nowhere else so truthfully and vividly."
But now she could not have credited her senses had it not been for a glimpse of Lounsbury's horse, industriously cropping beside the lean-to. She looked across at the shack, squatting on a gentle rise at the centre of the claim as if it had fled there for refuge out of the grassy sea whose dry waves lapped up to its very door.
"It'll be hard to make a good fire in the snow, and we can't build one at all if them pack horses has got away by now." "You mean we'd die?" Lounsbury's eyes protruded. "The ax is in the pack. We wouldn't have a chance." Lounsbury turned abruptly, scarcely able to refrain from running. The pack horses, however, hadn't left their tracks.
Lounsbury's shrill complaints and Vosper's shouts could not urge their tired mounts to a faster gait. The shadows deepened in the tree aisles; the trail dimmed; the tree trunks faded in the growing gloom. "We won't be able to see our way at all in five minutes more," Virginia told herself. Yet five minutes passed, and then, and still the twilight lingered.
But Marylyn welcomed her with a question or two, exclaimed sorrowfully at the news of Lounsbury's mother, and, when the elder girl explained that the storekeeper had been too busy to come to the shack, returned a faint smile. "The brave baby!" thought Dallas. But Marylyn was puzzling over Lounsbury's true reason for staying away now when their father was not there to object.
This list is in many particulars erroneous, as I have learned from a letter of Professor Lounsbury's which I have had the privilege of reading, but this is a detail which need not delay us. The reason why Emerson has so much to say on this subject of borrowing, especially when treating of Plato and of Shakespeare, is obvious enough.
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