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The result was a complete vindication of the colonel, and a loss of considerable custom to the indiscreet barkeeper. The colonel was as good-natured a man as had ever been known at Challenge Hill, but, being mortal, the colonel had his occasional times of despondency, and one of them occurred after a series of races, in which he had staked his all on his own bay mare Tipsie, and had lost.
But unappreciated sympathy grows decidedly tiresome to the giver, and it was with a feeling of relief that the boys saw the colonel stride out of the saloon, mount Tipsie, and gallop furiously away. Riding on horseback has always been considered an excellent sort of exercise, and fast riding is universally admitted to be one of the most healthful and delightful means of exhilaration in the world.
The people at Mud Gulch knew the colonel well, and made it a rule never to be astonished at anything he did; but they made an exception to the rule when the colonel canvassed the principal bar-rooms for men who wished to purchase a horse; and when a gambler, who was flush, obtained Tipsie in exchange for twenty slugs only a thousand dollars, when the colonel had always said that there wasn't gold enough on top of the ground to buy her Mud Gulch experienced a decided sensation.
There seemed to be no path through the thicket into which the colonel had turned, but Tipsie walked between trees and bushes as if they were but the familiar objects of her own stable-yard. Suddenly a voice from the bushes shouted: "What's up?" "Business that's what," replied the colonel.
The man led the way, and Tipsie and the colonel followed, and the trio suddenly found themselves before a small log hut, in front of which sat three solemn, disconsolate-looking individuals, who looked appealingly at the colonel. "Mac'll tell yer how 'twas, fellers," said the colonel, meekly, "while I picket the mare."
When I seed you git out of Challenge Hill, it come to me all of a sudden that you might be in the road-agent business, so I followed you duty, you know. But after I seed you sell Tipsie, I knowed I was on the wrong trail. I wouldn't suspect you now if all the stages in the State was robbed; an' I'll give you satisfaction any way you want it." "It's all right," said the colonel, with a smile.
The colonel was very chivalrous, but Cranks's sarcastic reference to Tipsie needed avenging, and as he could not consistently with business arrangements put an end to Cranks, the old lady would have to suffer.
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