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The Shawanoe warrior, after parting with his companion, walked leisurely toward the tree behind which the young Kentuckian was hiding, until about twenty yards separated them. Then he stopped as abruptly as if stricken by a thunderbolt. There was "something in the air" which whispered danger.
"Neb, another word like that and I shall brain you! Do you hear me? I I shan't be there!" "Not be dar!" Neb exclaimed. "Kain't swaller dat, suh. Ef you should miss dat race, why, you'd drop daid." "I believe you, Neb believe you. I say, Neb, look here. I have promised on the honor of a Kentuckian, never to enter another race-track.
Next day, however, an odd thing occurred. We strolled out together, all four of us, along the banks of the lake, among woods just carpeted with strange, triangular flowers trilliums, Mrs. Quackenboss called them and lined with delicate ferns in the first green of springtide. I began to grow poetical. The Kentuckian flung himself at full length on the sward, just in front of Charles.
“The whole South will ring with the praises of that man one of these days,” remarked Breckinridge, after Morgan had made his exit. “A perfect dare-devil. I am proud he is a Kentuckian,” remarked Trabue.
As Dirke arrived with his second, a saturnine Kentuckian, with a duelling record of his own, he glanced about the desolate spot thinking it well chosen. Only one feature of the scene struck him as incongruous.
Half horse, half alligator, as they are pleased to term themselves, their roving mode of life and wild pursuits, are little removed from those of the native Indian, who scarcely inspires more curiosity among the civilized portion of the Union, than a genuine Kentuckian."
The instructions were given, and within two hours' time Captain Gil Uraga, of the Zacatecas Lancers, was in receipt of a challenge from the Kentuckian Colonel Miranda being its bearer. With such a voucher the lancer officer could not do otherwise than accept, which he did with cooler confidence for the very reason Miranda had made known.
Bob spoke gloomily, as though the unsuccessful search was beginning to pall upon him a little. Boys' natures differ so much; and while the young Kentuckian had many fine qualities that his chum admired, still he was not so persistent as Frank. Nothing could ever daunt the boy from Circle Ranch. Difficulties, he believed, were only thrown in his way to bring out the better parts of his nature.
But he said it was black meat you wanted, not white," sang out Maurice, cheerily; and when he chose to make himself agreeable the young Kentuckian could win over nearly any man. "Seems like yuh know me, youngster. Who-all be yuh, anyhow, and what yuh doin' thisaways. I'd like tuh know right well?" But the sheriff had at the same time made a motion to his men, and all show of weapons vanished.
His manner left no doubt that he was the owner of the scalp in the canoe, and that, having missed it, he was walking back over his own trail, while he searched every foot of ground for the trophy. He had not seen the young Kentuckian, and had no suspicion that he was in the vicinity. Discovery, however, must come within the next few seconds, for the nearest shelter was too far off to be of avail.
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