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When within about six miles of his destination he was headed off by two men who were disguised past identification. They ordered him to stop and unhitch his team and after doing so was told to drive the horses up the road. When about thirty yards away he was ordered to stop. The men then began killing the Indians while he stood looking on and holding to his team.
His manner was calm, so calm that no one could have guessed a single detail of what lay between these two, or the significance of their strange meeting. "You've hit a bad trail," he said. "There's a big drop back there. These steps go on up to my home. The old fort. They're an old short cut to this valley. Guess your man'll need to unhitch his horses and turn the cart round.
Musq'oosis clambered down and shook hands with Sam and Ed. "Tell them to unhitch," said Sam, mindful of the duties of hospitality. Musq'oosis shook his head. "Got go back," he said. "Got sleep to-night on Little Prairie. Home to-morrow night." Sam felt relieved. His ordeal was not to be long continued then. Whatever colour might be given it, he knew what Musq'oosis had really come for.
It was noticed that as soon as they stopped work the auger ceased to grow; and when they arrived, they looked at it for a minute, and one of them said, "Bill, do you recognize that auger?" "I think I do," said Bill. "Well, Bill, you go and unhitch that wheel from the other end of the rod." Bill did so; and then the other man asked the crowd to take hold of the auger and pull.
But he could as easily have stopped the pursuing fire, which was in the meadow and was house high; for, with those in the rear pressing them on at every bound, the leaders could not slacken their course. He saw that there was but one thing to be done: increase the speed before the buckboard was run down. "Oh, why didn't I unhitch?" he cried miserably as he climbed back to the little girl's side.
She likes poetry and all such things. And where's that other piece that tells how a man feels when he's lonesome? Say, that fellow knew!" We had a genuinely good time, the agent and I, and when he finally rose to go, I said: "Well, I've sold you a new book." "I see now, mister, what you mean." I went down the path with him and began to unhitch his horse. "Let me, let me," he said eagerly.
Caleb Schell finally closed his ledger and put it away. Hiram shook hands with him and walked out. On the platform outside, which was illuminated by a single smoky lantern, a group of small boys were giggling, and they watched Hiram unhitch the old horse and climb into the spring wagon with so much hilarity that the young farmer expected some trick.
Well, stranger, we won't quarrel none over the payin', an' your frien' can pile in with me." Conniston turned, murmuring his thanks, to where Hapgood now was sitting up. And the red-headed man climbed down from his seat and began to unhitch his horses. "You needn't git your frien' up jest now in case he ain't finished his siesta. We won't move on until mornin'." "Where are you going to sleep?"
And Daddie worked, and mammy worked, and another woman. You are pleased, ain't you, Uncle Dannie?" "Who told ye to call me Uncle?" asked Dannie, with unsteady lips. "She did!" announced the little woman, flourishing the whip in the direction of the cabin. Dannie climbed down to unhitch. "You are goin' to be my Uncle, ain't you, as soon as it's a little over a year, so folks won't talk?"
The old dog who lay in front of the granary door raised his head at their approach and lifted one ear, as if to command silence. Tom helped the doctor out of the buggy. He tried to unhitch the horse, but the beating of his heart nearly choked him the fear of what might be in the granary. He waited for the exclamation from the doctor which would proclaim him a murderer.
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