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Updated: May 7, 2025
He passed the screaming boy within killing distance, but it was an evil day. Before the small herder's voice asserted itself he was long out of rifleshot though not out of pony-reach. A dozen men dashed after him. The warrior plied his whip mercilessly in alternate slaps on each pony-quarter and the bareback savage drew steadily away to the hills.
We at once started the fires afresh, the steam having gone entirely down, and made all sail in pursuit. The chase at this time was about four miles from us, and for a long time we gained scarcely any thing upon her. We threw a rifleshot astern him, but he disregarded this also.
When the station hotel and straggling settlement of Sugar Pine, now distinct and clear in the growing light, at last rose within rifleshot on the plateau, the buggy suddenly darted swiftly by us so swiftly that the faces of the two occupants were barely distinguishable as they passed and, keeping the lead by a dozen lengths, reached the door of the hotel.
"Who knows? Maybe to finish the work he began in the mountains." "More than likely," Holton ventured. "A rifleshot in the back, or a match touched to a building." "I don't believe it," Frank said stoutly. "The man who laid down his weapons to give me a fair, square fight, wouldn't stoop to things like that." "'Pears to me the man who fired that bomb 'u'd do most anythin'," said Holton.
When the savage was within twenty feet, so near that his dark face, swollen with fierce passion, could be plainly discerned, a peculiar whistling noise sounded over Joe's shoulder. It was accompanied, rather than followed, by a clear, ringing rifleshot. The Indian stopped as if he had encountered a heavy shock from a tree or stone barring his way.
It was, taken altogether, a daring play, and succeeded as much from that reason as anything else. In football the unexpected counts most, and Harmony was certainly caught napping. Winters made his difficult pass as swift and sure as a rifleshot into Hopkins' arms. In a moment the Harmony backs downed him, but the tackle came too late to save the score.
The hunter's voice had still the quick snap and force which made it startling as a rifleshot when he entered the cabin. "These are my friends, Neal and Adolphus Farrar," said Cyrus, introducing the blanketed youths, who had now risen to their feet. "Boys, this is Herb Heal, our new guide, christened Herbert Healy isn't that so, Herb?" "I reckon it is;" answered the young hunter, laughing.
The sign says that this place is "The Oasis," and the nearest trees a long rifleshot away, and the coolest water going warm into parched mouths!
When the station hotel and straggling settlement of Sugar Pine, now distinct and clear in the growing light, at last rose within rifleshot on the plateau, the buggy suddenly darted swiftly by us, so swiftly that the faces of the two occupants were barely distinguishable as they passed, and keeping the lead by a dozen lengths, reached the door of the hotel.
It may try to kill us with the poisoned arrows of persecution; but what defence can it make against the rifleshot of common-sense, or how stand against the shattering artillery of science? Every such battle is decided in its commencement, for every religion begins to succumb the very moment it is attacked. Fling mud enough and some of it will stick.
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