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Blake soon had the race to himself. It was a mile or more to the washout in the road, but the excitement made him keen for the test. The road ran through the woods and along the high bluff that overlooked the river. He did not know it, but this same road was a "short cut" to the macadam pike farther south. By taking this route the robbers gave Boggs City a wide berth.
An attack that fails is a "washout," for not all attacks succeed. If they did, progress would be a matter of marching. "Zero is at four; come at two," Howell said when I was going. At two the next afternoon I found him occupied less with final details than with the routine business of one who is clearing his desk preparatory to a week-end holiday.
We'll be 'riddling him with bullets' when they arrive and by that time she'll be so rattled she won't know whether it's a man or a mule we've got strung up." "You'll have to cut down your victim before I get there," grinned Chip. "I never could get the creams through the gate, with a man hung to the frame; they'd spill us into the washout by the old shed, sure as fate." "That'd be all right.
As if in answer to his wish, a quick, alert voice cut in saying, "Washout ahead, boys. The Bow River's been cutting up. We're stalled here for good and all, I guess." And the lanterns and voices faded away forward. Norton lay very still for a few moments trying to realize it all. Then raising himself on one elbow, he peered out across an absolutely level open prairie.
"Cowan took Kit's horse and led his own, which was about give out. He turned back east, up a draw where he won't be seen unless somebody's right on top of him. Eight or ten miles out he'll turn Foy's horse loose; he'll carry the extra saddle on a ways and drop it in a washout. They'll find Foy's horse and think he's roped a fresh one.
On the top of Crossledge Hill is erected a circular brick water tower 35 ft. high to the underside of the service tank, which is of cast iron 30 ft. internal diameter, supported on rolled girders. The tank is capable of containing 50,000 gallons of water, and it is provided with the usual rising and service mains, overflow and washout pipes.
And how she keeps a maid for more than a week beats me altogether. What I say, madam, is those who button in front when they should hook behind are a fair washout." Stella laughed. "I'm afraid that you'll find, Jenny, that Miss Whitworth will hook behind to-night." Jenny went on unaffected by the rejoinder. She had her little item of news to contribute to the contentment of her mistress.
But when he saw that the rider did not come directly toward the shack a cold sweat broke out on his forehead and he fingered the rifle nervously. When he saw the rider disappear in the washout, he got a chair from inside and, standing on it, concentrated his gaze at the point where the rider must emerge.
Saterlee approached the group, some of whose elders had been watching and discussing his approach. "Do any of you own a boat?" he asked. "Train D-railed?" queried the proprietor of the Life-Saving Station, "or was you just out for a walk?" The family and family-in-law laughed appreciatively. "The train put to sea in a washout," said Saterlee, "and all the passengers were drowned."
Don't try to keep around on the ridge; there's a deep washout on each side, so you couldn't possibly make it. We can't with the horses, even." Jean did not know that there was a note of superiority in her voice when she spoke the last sentence, but her listeners winced at it.
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