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Updated: June 23, 2025
I 've sorter been entertainin' her nights with some stories regardin' road-agents an' things o' thet sort, while, so fur as I kin larn, thet blame chump of a McNeil hes been fillin' her up scandalous with Injuns, until she 's plum got 'em on the brain. Ye know a feller jist hes ter gas along 'bout somethin' like thet, fer it's no fool job ter entertain a female thet's es frisky es a young colt.
And so on were the sums named by the noble-hearted and generous fellows, even those who had lost their money by the road-agents subscribing, until Doctor Dick called out, for he had been keeping account: "Hold on, all! The amount is already named. Now, men, form in line, and give your names as you pass along, and the money, those who have it."
Apaches were raiding; claim-jumpers were battling; road-agents were robbing stages; bad men were slaying one another in the streets; and, taking it altogether, life was stepping to a lively tune. Geronimo's naked warriors were industrious. Now they would steal upon a pair of miners doing assessment work within sight of town.
He knew the merciless nature of the road-agents, and that if they fired without challenging him, she stood, in as much danger as he did of being killed or wounded. So he said: "I would much rather that you should go inside the coach, especially until we pass the Dead Line." "No; I remain here." "You are determined?" "I am."
Miss Seldon was coming to Last Chance to find that very young man, who had in turn come there in search of her father, and now, when she was a captive to the road-agents, to be given up only upon the payment of a large ransom, the stranger had most mysteriously disappeared.
"That means you are on the right trail to bag those road-agents?" "Yes, sir." "They appear to be well handled?" "They are, sir, for their chief is a man of remarkable pluck, cunning, and skill, and he handles them in a masterly manner." "Who is he?" "I do not believe his own men could tell you, sir, for he goes masked and robed in black, even covering up his horse from ears to tail."
"And I will not do it unless we are doomed to be cut off from all communication, and I see that Last Chance will be ruined, from fear of traveling the trail to it," said Doctor Dick decidedly. "How is your patient, doctor?" "Which one, for I have a number of patients just now?" "The young man whose wound at the hands of the road-agents turned his brain."
In an Early Christian way the archbishops of Vienne ravaged among the Protestants; between whiles the robber-counts, without respect to creed, ravaged among the travelling public with a large-minded impartiality; and, down in the lowest rank of ravagers, the road-agents of the period stole all that their betters left for them to steal.
Back to Last Chance the party reluctantly retraced their way, after they had eaten their noonday meal, and all hope of finding a clue to the retreat of the road-agents was given up, save by old Huckleberry, who each day went off on a hunt, though many were sure that it was a trail, not game, that he was hunting.
Hill always said he counted on coming into Palomitas some day on one of his mules bareback leaving the other five dead or stampeded, and the coach stalled somewhere and bringing his hair only because road-agents hadn't no use for hair and his wasn't easy to get anyhow, he being so bald on top there wasn't nothing to ketch a-hold of if anybody wanted to lift what little there was along the sides.
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