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Updated: June 26, 2025
"Very good; then we have them! Be ready to start for Belleville by one o'clock sharp. And mind, Sweetwater, keep your wits alert and your tongue still. Remember that as yet we are feeling our way blindfold, and must continue to do so till some kind hand tears away the bandage from our eyes. Go! I have a letter to write, for which you may send in a boy at the end of five minutes."
A pleasing prospect for Sweetwater, who, however, kept on with the dogged determination of his character up the first flight of stairs and then up another till they stopped, Captain Wattles first and afterwards his humble follower, before a small door into which the captain endeavoured to fit a key.
Halting for rest and coffee when the sun was an hour high, they again pushed on until noon, when they unsaddled in a grove of leafy cottonwoods in a little fork of the Medicine Bow, watered the weary horses and gave them a hearty feed and themselves as hearty a dinner, and then picketing and hoppling their steeds, who were glad enough to roll and sprawl in the sand, all hands managed to get some hours of sound sleep before the sun was sinking to the edge of the Sweetwater Range.
Sweetwater trembled with eagerness and listened breathlessly for the next sound. Brotherson was awake. He was tossing in his bed. Now he has leaped to the floor.
General Howard was ordered to move, via Davis's Ford and Sweetwater, to Athena, with a guard forward at Charleston, to hold and repair the bridge which the enemy had retaken after our passage up. General Jeff.
But Fraser looked at the man with a quiet, scornful steadfastness. He knew what was coming, and had decided upon his course. "Seems to be a kind of map, lieutenant. Here's Gimlet Butte and the Half Way House and Sweetwater Dam and the blasted pine. Looks like it might be a map from the Butte to this part of the country. Eh, Mr. Fraser from Texas?" "And if it is?"
Then, glancing at the list of names and addresses which had been compiled for him by Sweetwater, he added: "I will read off your names as recorded here. If each person, on hearing his own, will move quickly to his place and remain there till my young man can make a note of the same, we shall get through this matter in short order.
The question was so sudden and so sharp that the detective came near replying to it; but he bethought himself, and said nothing. "That settles which of the two gnawed the loaf," continued Sweetwater. The next minute he was hovering over the still more pathetic figure of John, sitting in the chair. "Sad! Sad!" he murmured. Suddenly he laid his finger on a small rent in the old man's faded vest.
But a young man who at that moment crossed her path gave her enough to think about. "You recognize them? There is no mistake?" he whispered. "None; the one this way is the young man I saw leave Mr. Adams's house, and the other is the old gentleman who came in afterward." "Mr. Gryce advises you to return home. He is going to arrest the young man." And Sweetwater passed on.
"Thank you, Simon," returned Kiddie. "But you've done enough in helping me to rescue young Rube here. We'll stay the night in your camp and then get back to our canoe and home to Sweetwater Bridge." "What's your all-fired hurry?" questioned Simon. "You'll stay as long as ever you like. It can't be as long as I should like. Stay a while for my sake. Just consider.
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