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"But you see we can't be sartin just yit; if Vose is in that kind of bus'ness, he'll give himself away purty soon." "I agree with you and we'll watch him." Thus was the momentous bargain made. When the four came together once more, the parson remarked: "It's my belief that after we were well out of the way, the two went down the gorge to the main trail and are now making haste to Sacramento."
Captain Dawson was but a few paces to the rear of Vose Adams's mule, whose surety of step he admired and tried to imitate. "Training seems able to accomplish anything," reflected the captain; "I remember how Lieutenant Russell and I stopped on the further edge of this infernal place when we reached it one forenoon and spent several hours trying to find a safer path.
When Vose Adams made his quarterly visits to Sacramento, he was accompanied by two mules.
Had he protested, he might have added to the suspicion against himself. It was further in his favor that it was known he had never had much to do with Timon. As already related, the brute had few friends among the miners and Vose Adams never sought his acquaintance. Nevertheless, it was impossible to brush out of sight one significant fact, the long absence of Adams the day before.
Peters," as it was first called, cheerfully and hopefully. A few days after their arrival Colonel Leavenworth, Major Vose, Surgeon Purcell, Mrs. Captain Gooding and my father made a keel-boat trip to the "Falls of St. Anthony," and were amazed at the beauty and grandeur of the scene.
You lost your way the first hour in Dead Man's Gulch; if you hadn't done so, it would have took me a blamed sight longer to find you; there are half a dozen other places in the mountains ten times worse than the one where you flew the track. Howsumever, if you don't want me, I'll go back." And Vose Adams, as if his dignity had received a mortal hurt, began turning his mule around.
"That isn't the way I do bus'ness," replied Vose rather loftily; "it's more'n likely, howsumever, they seen us all awhile ago when we was further down the trail. They're traveling eastward." "How can you know that?" asked the parson. "The Injin that took his dive off the trail 'bout the time the captain fired off his revolver, was going that way.
Vose Adams saw that his own suspicion had entered the mind of their leader, but the countenance of the guide was as blank as that of a child. "It's the worst tramp I ever had," remarked the parson, removing his hat and mopping his forehead. "If there's any harder work," added Ruggles, "count me out." Captain Dawson looked angrily at Vose. "Do you know the meaning of this?"
"Well," he puffed, with a windy sigh, "you look behind enough like the Professor to be him. And your voice is jest like his that I'll swear to! You must be some related." "I don't know that we've any scientists in the family," I said, with a laugh. I rather liked the long-legged individual. "Don't know nobody named Vose?" he asked. "No-o. Don't think I do."
The captain looked inquiringly at him and he explained: "You and Vose have set it up atween you." "I have told you that if your help is needed, it will be welcome; I can add nothing to that." "The captain is right," interposed the parson, "but at the same time, he can see what a disappointment it is for us." "I admit that, but we are not out of the woods yet."
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