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"I'm sure we enjoyed it very much," rejoined Peggy quite at ease and her own cool self now "It was like er like Buffalo Bill " "Only more so," put in Jess, with her most bewitching smile. "Um er quite so," rejoined the plainsman, rather more at ease now; "ye see, we're a party that's out on a horse hunt.
The bright-faced little woman whom he affectionately called "Ma"; the massive old plainsman, Rube, with his gurgling chuckle, gruff voice and kindly heart. And his thoughts stirred in him an emotion he never would have admitted. He thought of the terrible lot he had saved this child from, for he knew only too well why she had been spared by the ruthless Big Wolf.
When they had reached the privacy of Mr. Worth's room, the old plainsman and the Irishman stood as if each waited for the other to begin. "Well, men," said Jefferson Worth. "What is it?" "Go on, ye owld oysther," growled Pat to Tex. "Why the hell don't ye tell the boss what we've come to tell him. Shpake up." Texas Joe cleared his throat and began formally: "I don't reckon, Mr.
The cap came loose, but as he raised the canteen and lifted his face with open parched lips he looked straight into the muzzle of the big forty-five and back of the gun into the steady eyes of the plainsman. "I'm sorry, pard, but you can't do it." For an instant the Irishman sat as if suddenly turned to stone.
"Ay, ay, sonny," is the unmilitary but characteristic answer. "What's your news?" "Got there in time, and saved what's left of 'em; but it's a hell-hole, and you fellows are wanted quick as you can come, thirty miles ahead. Where's the colonel?" The corporal of the guard goes back to the bivouac, leading the two arrivals. One is a scout, a plainsman born and bred, the other a sergeant of cavalry.
He, a rough, half-educated plainsman; she, a girl who displayed, even in her most reckless moods, that indelible stamp which marked the disparity between the social worlds to which they belonged. He was convinced, without disparaging himself, that to attempt to win her would be an outrage, an imposition on her. Worse, it would be rankly dishonest. So the man said nothing.
But at last the time came round when the troops began to converge upon the Reservations, and the shepherding process swept the Indians to their homes, a dejected horde, hating but cowed for the moment. As before, as always, their fierce fires of savagery were alight; they were only burning low, for, as every plainsman knows, they are unquenchable.
The constant swerving of the trail westward seemed to shatter his earlier theory, and, brought him greater uneasiness. Finally he spoke of it to the old plainsman beside him. "What do you suppose those fellows are heading so far west for, Ben? They are taking a big risk of running into hostiles." "Oh, I don't know," returned the other gravely, lifting his eyes to the far-off sky line.
"It's too late. His teeth are locked. He's far gone. Poor boy! poor boy! Who's to tell his mother?" I could see from under my hat-brim that the solemn, hollow voice had penetrated the cold exterior of the plainsman. He could not speak; he clasped and unclasped his big hands in helpless fashion. Frank was as white as a sheet. This was simply delightful to me.
Inside the house, with the bearskin blind dropped at the window again, and the fire blazing high, Loisette sat with the Governor's reprieve in her hand. Looking at it, she wondered why it had been given to Ba'tiste Caron, and not to a police-officer. Ah yes, it was plain Ba'tiste was a woodsman and plainsman, and could go far more safely than a constable, and faster.
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