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"We've got ter git ter camp, an' this's the nearest way; but, ef you're afraid, we'll turn back. That warn't nothin' ter hurt, though, it did sound kind er skeery. Ther shortest way's always ther best in this country, so let's go ahead," said Jerry.
Nasmyth, who was quite unable to accompany either, prepared the supper and awaited their reports with some anxiety. Lisle came back first and shook his head when Nasmyth asked if he had found a better route on higher ground. "Not a slope we could haul along," he reported. "That way's impracticable." It was nearly dark when Jake came in. "It's not too bad ahead," he informed them.
Wonder 'f I'll ebber git back from de 'Cad'my, an' ketch fish in dis yer bay. Sho! Course I will. But goin' 'way's awful!" Dab Kinzer thought he had never before known Jenny Walters to appear so well as she looked that evening; and he must have been right, for good Mrs. Foster said to Annie, "What a pleasant, kindly face your new friend has! You must ask her to come and see us.
Brown readily assented to the propriety of sparing the horse, and added that, as they were now far out of the reach of the rogues, he thought Mr. Dintnont had better tie a handkerchief round his head, for fear of the cold frosty air aggravating the wound. 'What would I do that for? answered the hardy farmer; 'the best way's to let the blood barken upon the cut; that saves plasters, hinney.
"No, no, my man," he said with a grim smile but with a watchful eye, and nodding to the men to close in around them. "Your way's down, not up." "What do you mean?" cried Landless, recoiling. "I mean that the Doctor and the Major and I and these men go back to the settlements to look after things there, and that you are going to renew your acquaintance with Jamestown gaol."
He saw that the men were determined, but while they had, no doubt, been worked upon, he thought they had no personal grudge against him or his partner. "There's only one way you could put the screw to the bosses, and that way's dangerous. The Colonist states that they have a number of men unemployed in the coast towns. If Kerr wrote to a labor agent, he'd send him up a crowd."
And to him she led Saxon, and into his arms placed her. "Now, sir and you look delicious, the pair of you register your objections to my way of earning a living." "It ain't your way," Billy repudiated quickly. "Your way's all right. It's great. What I'm trying to get at is that your way don't fit us. We couldn't make a go of it your way.
"Fried kidney, I expect, outer that stag he shot. Guess he'll be worryin' some 'bout my not bein' back in camp yet. I'd best quit an' get back right away. No; I ain't goin' back the way I come. I'm figurin' as th' easiest an' safest way's ter climb up higher an' then make tracks across Lone Wolf Mountain an' down to the lake. That's what Kiddie'd do, I reckon."
Guess you heard a jay squawkin' a lot, didn't you, Kiddie?" "Sure," Kiddie nodded. "Couldn't get quit of the fowl until you came along on my track an' it started ter foller you instead of me. How'd you find your way back to camp?" "Came th' same way as you did, I reckon," answered Rube. "Went th' same way's you meant me ter go, all the time trackin' you by the clues you left."
You'll be lucky to git as close to 'em as the other side of a 40-acre field." "But s'posin' a rebel runs at you with his bayonet," expostulated Harry Joslyn, "oughtn't you to know how to ward him off and settle him?" "The best way's to settle him jest as he comes over the hill, half-a-mile away, with an ounce o' cold lead put where he lives.
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