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The meal disposed of, Le Blanc and the boys fixed up the folding camp cots and spread their blankets. There was still no sign of Sanborn. Frank was still struggling to keep awake in order to read the man a sharp lecture when he returned when drowsiness overcame him and he dropped off to sleep.
Forbes could catch an occasional word, such as "The Spider El Paso White-Eye Hospital Sonora Sanborn Sam Brent " Pete turned and grinned. "I reckon you can let go the your holt, Doc. This here is a friend of mine." Forbes sighed thankfully. He was introduced to the friend, whom Pete called Ed, but whose name had been suddenly changed to Bill. "We used to ride together," explained Pete.
A hasty breakfast was had, and the boys were on the point of going on a hunt when there came a call from the lake. A man in a canoe was paddling toward them. "It's Jed Sanborn!" cried Snap, and he was right. Soon the old hunter had beached his craft and was shaking hands with them. "All safe?" was his first question. "All safe," was the answer. "Thet ghost didn't eat ye up then?
Rosendale and Reed's Corners were next visited. At the first I held services in the house of Mr. Sanborn, after whom the prairie at that time was called, and at the latter, the meeting was held in the residence of a Brother Lee, a brother of the celebrated Dr. Luther Lee.
Hannah met him at the door, her dark face flushed with emotion which she vainly tried to conceal by sharp words. "Hope ye've rested well, Mr. Sanborn. Another time, mebbe ye'll have more sense. As fine a boy's ye ever see, and Mis' Kinney she's a smilin' into its face, as nobody's never seen her smile yet, I tell you."
As my old readers know, the boy hunters knew only too well what a forest fire meant, and they had no desire to start such a conflagration. Their route now lay over some hills that were more or less strange to them. But they had received many instructions from Jed Sanborn, and thought they would have little trouble in gaining a trail back of the hills that led into the Windy Mountains.
"It looks to me as if we had better fall into position," said Sherman. "It is not necessary," I said. "They have given us the peace sign. They are coming toward us without arms." So Sherman, with General Harney, General Sanborn, and the other officers rode slowly forward to meet the oncoming braves. "This is where you need Curtis," I told the General as he advanced.
The relatives and friends of the deceased charged John Brown and his band with these murders, which the relatives and friends of Brown persistently denied. He was, in fact, the originator and performer of these executions, although the hands that dealt the wounds were those of others." Frank B. Sanborn, "Life and Letters of John Brown," pp. 263-4.
In a minute each hunter had his gun into position, Giant resting on a rock and Whopper in the crotch of a low tree. "I'll take the buck," whispered Jed Sanborn. "Ready?" "Yes." "Then fire!" Crack! went the several firearms, in a scattering volley, and the buck and one of the others pitched headlong, not to rise.
"Let us throw rocks into the opening," suggested Giant, and began to do as he had suggested. They heard a growl, but no wildcats showed themselves. "I'll throw a firebrand in," said Jed Sanborn, and cut a dry cedar bough. "Stand ready to shoot, if anything shows itself." With interest the boys watched the old hunter prepare his firebrand and light it.
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