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From the creek they tramped nearly two miles, through the dark gravel-banks of the railroad cut, across the high trestle over Joralemon River where Gertie had to be coaxed from stringer to stringer. They stopped only when a gopher in a clearing demanded attention.
But when Stringer stopped on second base, all the runners had scored. A shrill, shrieking, high-pitched yell! The bleachers threatened to destroy the stands and also their throats in one long revel of baseball madness. Jones, batting in place of Spears, had gone up and fouled out before the uproar had subsided. "Fellers, I reckon I feel easier," said the Rube.
Toogood was still very anxious to place Dan Stringer in the dock, but Mr Walker declared that they would fail if they made the attempt. Dan had been examined before the magistrates at Barchester, and had persisted in his statement that he had heard nothing about Mr Crawley and the cheque. This he said in the teeth of the words which had fallen from him unawares in the presence of Mr Toogood.
A crash at the bottom of the narrow canon told Racey what had happened to that part of the stringer the dynamite had not destroyed. Racey lowered the hammer of his rifle to the safety notch just as the posse began to approach the spot where the bridge had been. It approached on foot by ones and twos and from tree to tree.
It was quite unknown to him; up to this he had been condemned to take men as he found them; the pressure of circumstances alone had made him a business partner with Aaron Stringer. He had never trusted Stringer. Now, being in a position of command, he began to use this precious gift, and he selected Church for a first officer. He wanted a henchman.
"Ben Stringer aint got anything on me now," said he as he trudged along in triumph. Entering by the rear he caught hold of the rope which he had left hanging, ascended to the attic window and crawled in. The future ruler of the land! On the afternoon of the lynching Ramon Mansford alighted from the train at Maulville in search of Bud and Foresta.
Keep a sharp lookout for a cutter, boys!" Stringer, aroused now to excitement, went blundering forward through the fog, joining the men in the bows. Four pairs of eyes were peering through the mist, the damnable, yellow mist that veiled all things. "Curse the fog!" said Stringer; "it's just our damn luck!"
It had not occurred to him then that the man with the red nose was watching him, but it did occur to him now that the man with the red nose had been there, under the arch, with the express purpose of watching him on that occasion. Mr Toogood passed quickly through the bar into an inner parlour, in which was sitting Mr Stringer, the landlord, propped among his cushions.
"And she's got a sister, or somebody hangs about the place, worse than any of them. Why, when old Wynd " "And," said Miss Stringer, suddenly "and which house are you in in the schoolhouse?" "Hullo, then! you know Willoughby?" demanded Telson sharply. Miss Stringer looked confused, as well she might, but replied, "Ah! all public schools have a schoolhouse, have they not?"
The bleachers let out one deafening roar, then hushed. I would rather have had Stringer at the bat than any other player in the world, and I thought of the Rube and Nan and Milly and hope would not die. Stringer swung mightily on the first pitch and struck the ball with a sharp, solid bing!
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