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His eyes held a slumbering fire. His face was flushed. In these moments Kent did not see death. He was not visioning the iron bars of a prison. His blood pulsed only to the stir of that greatest of all adventures which lay ahead of him. He, the best man-hunter in two thousand miles of wilderness, would beat the hunters themselves.
It will scarce grieve you to know that "Bully Bill" experienced a somewhat similar fate that Ruffin, the man-hunter, was drowned by a sudden rising of the swamp and that the "nigger-trader" afterwards became a "nigger-stealer;" and for that crime was sentenced at the court of Judge Lynch to the punishment of "tar and feathers."
The Professor raised his eyes from a newly bought scarabeus to behold a stout little lady smiling on him from the doorway. He did not appear to be grateful for the interruption, but Mrs. Jasher was not at all dismayed, being a man-hunter by profession. Besides, she saw that Braddock was in the clouds as usual, and would have received the King himself in the same absent-minded manner.
She hung a dead weight in the arms of Dyke Darrel murdered by the hand of a brutal assassin. No wonder the bruised and almost helpless man-hunter groaned with inward anguish at the sight. He fell no easy prey into the hands of his enemies, however.
Had the crowd come up, I must have yielded nolens volens; but the man-hunter himself formidable antagonist though he appeared was still but one, and to surrender tamely to a single individual, was more than my spirit inherited from border ancestry could brook. There was too much of the moss-trooper blood in my veins for that, and I resolved, coute que coute, to risk the encounter.
I was jest waitin' fer the sun to go. Y'see we're organizin' a vigilance party to run Say, I'd a notion fer a moment you was one of his gang." But Scipio disclaimed the honor promptly. "No. I just need to find him. I'm needin' it bad." "Wot fer?" For once the man-hunter hesitated. A quite unaccountable feeling gave him a moment's pause.
He had some steel-traps in his packs which might serve to good purpose if he could once get the man-hunter on his trail; and he still fondly hoped to lure him over into Death Valley, where he would have to come out of the hills.
With eyes closed, Carrigan called himself an idiot for thinking of these things at the present time. Primarily he was a man-hunter out on important duty, and here was duty right at hand, a thousand miles south of Black Roger Audemard, the wholesale murderer he was after.
"The physiopathic ward for yours!" said the brown pompadour, walking away. These high ideas, if not ideals Nancy continued to cultivate on $8. per week. She bivouacked on the trail of the great unknown "catch," eating her dry bread and tightening her belt day by day. On her face was the faint, soldierly, sweet, grim smile of the preordained man-hunter.
Oh, Bill, Bill, you've done a foolish thing. I'm a shameless man-hunter. I came out west to find a husband, and I've found one. I wanted to marry you all along. I meant to marry you." Bill's laugh rang out in a great guffaw. "Bully!" he cried. "What's the use of marrying a girl who doesn't want to marry you?" "But she ought to pretend at first." "Not on your life. No pretense for me, Hel.
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