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Updated: May 15, 2025
"The trail leads to the right," he said, with a glance at the ground, as if to refresh his memory. His first thrill of misgiving came when he saw the parson pause and look searchingly at the ground. Had he possessed one-half the skill of Vose in trailing, he would have discovered that the guide was misleading them, but he did not have that cleverness nor did any other member of the party.
He was surveying his acquaintances, who surveyed him in turn with equal curiosity. Vose Adams's heart sank. What was the meaning of this? As he viewed it, the presence of the dog could have no other significance than that the lieutenant and Nellie Dawson were close at hand. Timon was in their company and would not have strayed far, so that he had betrayed them.
He had shown more thoughtfulness than any of them, and his knowledge of the perilous route through the mountains was beyond value. Indeed, it looked as if it was to prove the deciding factor in the problem. "Do you know our business, Vose?" asked the captain. "I knowed it the minute I seen you sneaking off like shadows toward the trail.
And yet the closest scrutiny of Vose Adams would not have discovered any tremor in his frame, or so much as a blanching of his face. He fully comprehended the nature of the peril that impended, but with the cool readiness of a veteran, he had fixed upon his line of action, in the same moment that he read the purpose of his formidable enemy.
"He is a fine marksman, but he may be in such a hurry that he'll miss." "No fear of that; I wonder," added Ruggles, startled by a new thought, "whether Vose has any idee of stickin' in his oar." "Likely enough." "I must git a chance to warn him that we won't stand any nonsense like that! The best that we'll do is to promise him a chance for a crack after you and me miss."
The reader understands by this time why the guide formulated such an astounding fiction when attempting to explain the cause of his delay. Had his listeners been in cooler mood, they might have tangled him up with a few questions, but their exasperation and disgust prevented. Before parting with the fugitives, Vose assured them that he was confident their plans could not fail.
Vose Adams suggested that the criminal be compelled to go without any food for three days, but this was not favorably received, since the rough, trying life which each man had been compelled to follow at times during the past years, made the punishment much less than it appeared to be. Ike Hoe suggested that instead of food, the accused's liquid refreshment should be shut off for the time named.
If it warn't for that danger, I might go in for backing up Vose with his name, but as it stands it won't do." The argument of Ike had produced its effect. There was little sympathy in the first place for the title, and that little was destroyed by the words of Ike, who proceeded to plead for his own choice. "Now as to 'Wolf Eye. In the first place, it is short and easy to say.
"In other words, after Nellie and I have fled from the settlement and got this far on the road to safety, you urge me to give her up forever." "Wal, that's lookin' a little further ahead than I meant to, but I 'spose it amounts to that." "You mean well, Vose, but do you imagine that Nellie and I did not count the cost before turning our backs on New Constantinople?
Vose explained that the leakage was due to the roughness of the trail. Since there seemed no other way of overcoming this, the landlord sent an extra cask with the request to Vose that he would confine his leakage to that and Vose kindly obliged him.
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