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Updated: August 7, 2024
"Yes; but there is nothing to fear from two hungry men in a small boat as I judge from the runner's account, shipwrecked mariners." "I don't know; there's no telling, they may be followed by others, and unless we keep them here " "If necessary we must keep them here; as, however, they are evidently not Spaniards it may not be necessary.
Instead of manifesting any emotion, however, the Onondago did not even cease to eat; but merely nodded his head, and muttered, "Good now hear news Jumper come." Sure enough, it was Jumper; and his appearance in the flesh, not only alive, but unharmed, produced a general shout among us as he came in, on such a long, loping gait, as usually marked a runner's movement.
Nan-ta-qua-us, even tried to insert the slender knob-headed stick, which was the "snake" in the game, between the runner's legs, and trip him up. But Ra-bun-ta was too skilful a runner to be stopped by trifles; he simply kicked the "snake" out of his way, and hurried on to the long house of the chief.
My lean runner's stomach has passed into the limbo of memory. The joints of the legs that bear me up are not so adequate as they once were, when, in wild nights and days of toil and frolic, I strained and snapped and ruptured them. Never again can I swing dizzily aloft and trust all the proud quick that is I to a single rope-clutch in the driving blackness of storm.
Uncle Tommy wrapped and tied each hat in two yards of dark calico for a protection. One Pearson tied carefully to his calfskin saddle-thongs; and the other became part of Road Runner's burden. They shouted thanks and farewells to Uncle Tommy, and cantered back into the night on the home stretch. The horsemen jockeyed with all their skill. They rode more slowly on their way back.
The conference was interrupted by the sound of galloping hoofs. An Indian pounded up in front of the saloon in a cloud of yellow dust. The pony was lathered and breathing hard. "It's a scout!" Garvey cried. "Let him in, and we'll see what he has to say." The Indian runner's words, gasped in halting, broken English, brought consternation to Garvey and his treacherous gunmen: "No get money box.
With the peculiar attention to detail distinctively the forest runner's he indicated a route. Sam was satisfied to let the matter rest there for the present. The next evening he visited the Indian's camp. It was made under a spreading tree, the tepee poles partly resting against some of the lower branches.
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