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The main cities were San Antonio de Bexar, San Felipe de Austin, Nacogdoches, San Augustine, Columbia, and the seaport town of Velasco, but not one of these boasted of more than thirty-five hundred inhabitants. To this territory had come, three years before, Amos Radbury, the father of the two lads introduced at the beginning of this chapter. The family were from Georgia, where Mr.
Asked to describe the stranger, Pompey gave a fairly good description of him, and this fitted Hank Stiger exactly. "He is around for no good purpose," said Amos Radbury. "Are all of the mustangs safe?" "Yes, sah. I'se dun watch dem de whole night, sah." "We must keep a watch to-night, too, and to-morrow we can go on a hunt and see if he is hiding anywhere near."
"We've had a hot time of it, father," put in Ralph. "If it hadn't been for Mr. Stover, I don't know what we would have done." "Ralph is right," assented Dan. "If he hadn't put out the fire we would have been burnt out, and the cabin would have gone up in smoke in the bargain." "I shall not forget your kindness, Poke," said Mr. Radbury, taking the frontiersman's horny hand.
"To arms!" came the call in the middle of the afternoon, and the solitary drum the Texans possessed began to roll. Then, as the men formed to march, the single fifer struck up the popular tune of the day, "Will You Come to the Bower?" "Dan, be careful of yourself!" cried Amos Radbury, as he pressed his son's hand. "Be careful for my sake!" And then he rushed off to lead his men forward.
In this party was Big Foot, the Comanche, who had been nursed at the Radbury ranch, but Ralph did not recognise the red man, for he was too far away. The storm had let up a little during the day, but now as night came on it broke forth once more, as furiously as ever. "This just suits me," said Captain Arguez. "It will wet us to the skin, to be sure, but it will put the Texans off their guard."
Radbury and Poke Stover joined in the labour, and before fall everything was running as smoothly as it had the spring previous. The liberty of Texas had been assured, but the people were not satisfied, and clamoured to be admitted to the United States. In a few years this was accomplished, and Texas became as she is to-day, the largest State in our glorious Union.
The next day proved so stormy and cold that the boys were glad to remain indoors. It did not snow, but the rain was a half hail and the wind was of the kind that reaches one's marrow. Only Amos Radbury and Poke Stover went out, to the cattle shed and the nearest range, and they were glad enough to come in long before evening. "Hank Stiger won't stir around much in this weather," observed Mr.
Amos Radbury questioned the half-breed, and at last concluded that the story must be largely true. This being so, he ordered Pompey to fetch some more water and prepare such a meal as might be good for the sick man. The planter had had considerable experience at doctoring, and he attended to the wounded knee with almost as much skill as a surgeon.
"Yes, if you'll promise to tell me about the papers." "I I will." Pompey was at once sent for a pitcher of fresh water, and when it arrived Hank Stiger grabbed it with both hands and drained it dry. Nectar could not have tasted sweeter to him. "Now what did you do with the papers?" Amos Radbury asked, after Stiger had given a long sigh of satisfaction. "I I lost 'em."
Just before he went to bed Dan looked out of the window and saw that it was clearing off, and that the stars were trying to break through the clouds. Down in a corner of the cattle shed rested a small keg of powder which Amos Radbury had brought home from Gonzales, for his stock of this article had run low. As Dan lay in bed he could not get this keg of powder out of his head.
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