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Updated: September 12, 2025
In this man's life surprises were not infrequent and now as ever he displayed only the nonchalance characteristic of all typical frontiersmen in moments of crisis. Something in her manner and attitude repressed the almost irresistible desire to answer her humorously, and his reply was grave to solemnity. "Yuh see, Miss Abbie, we-all promised Ken thet we wouldn't cut in on thet deal.
Mr. Brewster shook his head. "Ah reckon you-all talk sense but Ah would offer an amendment to your plan: to have Polly and Anne take Jeb for an escort and ride on at once. Let the horses have their head and get to the cave as soon as you can. Hold the fort until we-all join you. We-all will see these two men and find out what they are after."
Brewster permit herself to leave the post of watching and slump down into the porch rocker with a sigh of gratitude. Half an hour later the sound of wheels caused her to spring up in dread, but her husband's cheery laugh relieved her fears. "Ah saw your difficulty and did the only sensible thing; but we-all must keep this trick a secret.
"'We've been pushin' on our windin' uphill way for mighty likely half a day, an' I'm beginnin' so dooms slows is our progress to despair of gettin' out on top the mesa before dark, when to put a coat of paint on the gen'ral trouble the lead waggon breaks down. I turns out in the snow with the rest, an' we-all puts in a heated an' highly profane half-hour restorin' the waggon to health.
And as the latter netted a fish, and slipped it into the grass-lined creel, he spoke and said: "Mr. Young, he done ast me to-day when we gwine back t' de city. He done say dere's a big case waitin' fo' you, Colonel, sah. When is we-all gwine back?" "Never, Shag!" "Nevah, Colonel, sah?" "No. I'm going to spend all the rest of my life fishing. I've resigned from the detective business!
"When I'm a child, an' before ever I connects myse'f with the cow trade, if thar's a weddin', we-all has what the folks calls a 'infare, an' I can remember a old lady from the No'th who contreebutes to these yere festivals a drink she calls 'sprooce beer. An' pulque, before it takes to frettin' an' fermentin' 'round, in them pigskins, reminds me a mighty sight of that sprooce beer.
It's only now an' then, as I observes former, that Injuns invades Wolfville; an' when they does, we-all scowls 'em outen camp-sort o' makes a sour front, so as to break 'em early of habits of visitin' us. We shore don't hone none to have 'em hankerin' 'round.
I never does bend myse'f to severe study of savages an' what notions I packs concernin' 'em is the casual frootes of what I accidental hears an' what I sees. It's only now an' then, as I observes former, that Injuns invades Wolfville; an' when they does, we-all scowls 'em outen camp sort o' makes a sour front, so as to break 'em early of habits of visitin' us.
"But speakin' of Bill Connors: In Wolfville which them days is the only part of my c'reer whereof I'm proud an' reviews with onmixed satisfaction Doc Peets is, like you, inquis'tive touchin' Injuns. Peets puts it up that some day he's doo to write books about 'em. Which in off hours, an' when we-all is more or less at leesure over our Valley Tan, Peets frequent comes explorin' 'round for details.
Besides, it looks as if we-all are going to have some time up here, and Ah'd feel a heap easier if you women were safe at home." "Are there signs of other claim-jumpers coming up, Mr. Brewster?" asked Eleanor, anxiously.
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