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In a few minutes the horses, blankets, food, arms, etcetera, of the three friends were collected, and themselves unbound. "Now," said the robber chief, "I mean to spend the night here. You may bid us good-night. The world lies before you go!" "B-b-but, sor," said Flinders, with a perplexed and pitiful air. "Ye niver axed me if I'd j-j-jine ye." "Because I don't want you," said Stalker.
"You're wrong, Brixton; I've come to punish the blackguards that would hang you, an' set you free, as I'll soon show you. Is the door strong?" "Well, it's not made o' cast iron, but it's pretty tough." "Stand clear, then, an' I'll burst it in wi' my foot," said Stalker. "Och! is it smashin' yer bones you'll be after! Howld fast. Are ye a big man?" "Yes, pretty big."
This they knew at once from the fact that the plank-bridge, quadrupled in width to let the horse and cart pass, had been left undrawn as if to give them a mocking invitation to cross. Stalker at once accepted the invitation. The astute Bevan had, however, anticipated and prepared for this event by the clever use of a saw just before leaving.
He could be as patient as Death, that inchmeal stalker of his prey; he could be as ruthless as the sea, and incredibly generous upon occasion. To the men he led he was a father, known and beloved as such; it was as a ruler they found him too lonely to be loved. In war he was the very footboy's friend.
"I'm sartin sure," said one of the speakers, "that the old screw has gone right away to Simpson's Gully." "If I thought that, I'd follow him up, and make a dash at the Gully itself," said Stalker, plucking a burning stick from the fire to rekindle his pipe.
Then several boys had doubled, for surely the knowledge of cookery went hand in hand with that of camping; while a good stalker could at the same time enter for a merit badge in the path-finding line. Besides, though the season was late for swimming, several fellows who knew just what their best accomplishment might be, had qualified to enter this class.
Coupling these words with the character of the men around him, he jumped to a conclusion and decided on a course of action in one and the same instant. Presently Stalker returned, and addressing himself to Tom and Fred, said "Now, sirs, I know not your circumstances nor your plans, but I'll take the liberty of letting you know something of mine. Men give me and my boys bad names.
It was a sweet face he saw; one that was sedate, but had a promise of innumerable smiles. The blue eyes could not long hide flashes of merriment. The girl turned, and the two young people looked at each other. Her eyes softened with a woman's gentleness as they rested upon him, for, broad of shoulder, and lithe and strong as a deer stalker, he was good to look at. "Listen," she said.
Storm was in this way entirely taken to pieces, praised and disparaged, in a way to give Stalker, it might be inferred from his manner, a high opinion of the knowledge of these young gentlemen. "It takes a gentleman," in fact, Stalker said, "to judge a hoss, for a good hoss is a gentleman himself."
Then another war whoop, now expressing grief and rage, came, and he knew that the band would think the bullet had been sent from the mouth of the rock fortress. He crept a little farther away, lest a stalker should stumble upon him, and reloaded his rifle. He lay quite still a long time, and the first sound he heard was of slow and cautious footsteps.
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