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When, therefore, the party were about to move on, the captain said: "Vose, from this time forward you are the guide; the place for you is at the head; you will oblige me by taking the lead." Vose accepted the post of honor, which was also the one of peril, for it is the man in his position whose life hangs in the balance when Indians are concerned.
However, it would have been absurd to wait where they were in order to learn every move of their enemies, for that would have been a voluntary abandonment of the advantage secured at the cost of so much labor and danger. Captain Dawson insisted that the pursuit should be pressed without any thought of the red men, and Vose consented.
I place my opposition to duelling on higher grounds than here stated. No doubt a majority of the duels fought have been for want of moral courage on the part of those engaged to decline. At Camp Salubrity, and when we went to New Orleans Barracks, the 4th infantry was commanded by Colonel Vose, then an old gentleman who had not commanded on drill for a number of years.
"It has a bad look, worse than I thought when he come back." "Why so?" "I take it with the action of that dog. You didn't fail to notice that Timon took us along the exact route that Vose was leadin' us over and we found out that it was the wrong one." "And you believe he purposely misled us?" "It's almost sartin." "Suppose it was certain, Wade?" "I'd shoot him quicker'n lightning." "So would I."
But we need some one to guide us through the mountains; you haven't done it yet; when your work is over you may go and live on wild Indians for all I care." Vose quickly regained his good nature. He returned his knife to its resting place, picked up his rifle, grasped the bridle rein and gently pulled. "Come, Hercules; I don't know whether they appreciate us or not; steady now!"
"Vose, you might have traded Hercules for him." "Not much! I wouldn't give that mule for a drove of horses that have belonged to these mountain Injins." "What's the matter with them? Aren't they as good as ours?"
But his story of the man who had been his partner for twelve years the man who looked and spoke like me had wheeled my mind square about! Instead of being headed north in my thoughts, I was at once headed south. I wanted to see this Professor Vose! Yes.
"It seems to me," said Brush, "that if the fellow intended mischief, he would have done it, but he has left no traces of anything of the kind." "Which was because the right kind of chance didn't show itself," said Vose; "if we don't have a lively fight before this bus'ness is over, I'm much mistook, but it's time we was moving."
"I advised 'em to wait till I found out how the land laid and they won't leave the spot till I get back." Lieutenant Russell gave no expression to the thought that flashed upon him. Why not keep Vose Adams a prisoner?
He tenderly passed his arm around the girl and touched his lips to her forehead. "It was not that I doubted you, Nellie," he said, "but that Vose might know the full truth." Then turning to the guide, he asked: "Do you still advise her to leave me?" Vose Adams was unaccustomed to scenes like this. He moved about uneasily, coughed, cleared his throat, and for a few minutes was at a loss for words.
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