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  Speaker 1: Chapter twelve of Redskin and Cowboy, A Tale of the
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  Speaker 1: Western Plains by j Ahinty. This LibriVox recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain. Chapter twelve an Indian raid. The cowboys
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  Speaker 1: were all mounted on horses that had not been worked
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  Speaker 1: for some days. Hugh was on Prince, and they got
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  Speaker 1: over the ground at great speed, arriving before sunset. At
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  Speaker 1: the ruined village. There were three or four men, seven
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  Speaker 1: or eight women, and as many children gathered when they
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  Speaker 1: rode in. The men had been absent when the attack
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  Speaker 1: took place. The women had escaped by seizing their children
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  Speaker 1: and rushing out at the backs of the houses and
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  Speaker 1: hiding among the rocks and bushes. As soon as the
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  Speaker 1: yells of the Indians and explosions of the firearms burst
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  Speaker 1: upon their ears. We heard you was coming, one of
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  Speaker 1: the men said, but a fear, it's too late. They've
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  Speaker 1: got too far a start. Altogether, we didn't waste a minute,
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  Speaker 1: Bronchoharry said. We were in the saddle three minutes after
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  Speaker 1: Tom brought us the news, and we have rode seventy
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  Speaker 1: miles since Tom has done a hundred and forty since
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  Speaker 1: last night. Where's Steve Rutherford has he been wiped out. No,
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  Speaker 1: if he were away after a bunch of horses that
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  Speaker 1: had strayed. He were camping out twenty mile away when
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  Speaker 1: he saw the light and guessed what it were. He
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  Speaker 1: drove the horses in before him, feeling sure as he
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  Speaker 1: would be too late to do any good, but reckoning
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  Speaker 1: that they might be useful. Good man, Bronco said, but
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  Speaker 1: where is he? He went on alone after them. The
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  Speaker 1: man said some of us would have gone with him,
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  Speaker 1: but he reckoned that he had best go alone. There
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  Speaker 1: weren't enough of us to fight. He allowed that you
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  Speaker 1: boys would be here presently for the young and here
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  Speaker 1: told us as Tom had ridden off with the news,
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  Speaker 1: Ruthe Garston and Jim Gatlin rid off an hour later.
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  Speaker 1: And I reckon they'll bring a few more up before morning,
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  Speaker 1: maybe sooner. How many horses are there? Fifteen of the
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  Speaker 1: old man's I reckon they are in that corral behind
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  Speaker 1: this house. And I guess we've got as many more
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  Speaker 1: between us than there are enough to mount us ten
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  Speaker 1: and as many more Bronco. Harry said, ours ain't good
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  Speaker 1: for no more travel tonight. While we will just eat
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  Speaker 1: a bit, and then we shall be ready to go on,
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  Speaker 1: how many are there of you? Six here? While that
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  Speaker 1: makes sixteen. The three of you have got rifles, and
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  Speaker 1: four of us have brought rifles along with us. The
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  Speaker 1: only question is which way have the red devils ridden?
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  Speaker 1: It are no use our following them if we haven't
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  Speaker 1: a clue of some sort. I reckon Steve will be
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  Speaker 1: here before long. That is what he's gone for. He
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  Speaker 1: would know he couldn't do any good himself, and he
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  Speaker 1: would be pretty well sure as we couldn't gather here
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  Speaker 1: in any such forces could enter the engine country afore
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  Speaker 1: this evening. He took a lantern with him. One of
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  Speaker 1: the boys said, yes, that is it. I guess. He
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  Speaker 1: followed on foot till daylight. Then he mounted and went
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  Speaker 1: on their trail until he could give a pretty good
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  Speaker 1: guess as to where they was heading. Then I allow
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  Speaker 1: he will come back to tell us. That is how
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  Speaker 1: I read it. I expect you are right, Bronco. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't say as much when he started, but when we
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  Speaker 1: talked of going with him, he said, just you stop
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  Speaker 1: where you are. There ain't anything you can do. We
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  Speaker 1: can't fight them till we get help. You Just wait
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  Speaker 1: right here. Boys. It were rather rough on us when
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  Speaker 1: our gals are being carried off and our wives have
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  Speaker 1: been killed, and the whole place ruined. But we knew,
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  Speaker 1: as Steves knew a sight, were about engines than we did,
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  Speaker 1: and had been many a time into the heart of
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  Speaker 1: the engine country afore they broke out. So we waited.
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  Speaker 1: But I'll tell you, Harry, it were hard work to
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  Speaker 1: sit quiet and know that them murdering villains was getting
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  Speaker 1: further away every hour. We will have them, yet, Harry
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  Speaker 1: said confidently. If the old man don't ride up in
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  Speaker 1: another half hour, we will start. We will follow the
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  Speaker 1: trail as far as we can with lanterns. If we
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  Speaker 1: get to any place where the trail branches, then there
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  Speaker 1: will be nothing to do but wait for Steve. Have
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  Speaker 1: you eaten yet, because if not, you're best Bill up.
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  Speaker 1: It are no use starting on such a job as
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  Speaker 1: this fasting. We shall have need of all our strength
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  Speaker 1: before we have done. You can bet your boots. None
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  Speaker 1: of the men had in fact eaten anything since the
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  Speaker 1: preceding night, but they saw the justice of the advice.
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  Speaker 1: There's some sheep up behind my place, one of them said,
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  Speaker 1: like enough. They was up on the hills when the
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  Speaker 1: engines came, but I saw some of them go in
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  Speaker 1: there this morning. There ain't no time for cooking now,
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  Speaker 1: so we will share your grub, and I will shoot
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  Speaker 1: three or four of the sheep and cut them up.
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  Speaker 1: They will last us two or three days. That is
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  Speaker 1: a good idea. If there's any flowers hasn't been carried off,
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  Speaker 1: you'd best make up a few lots of five or
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  Speaker 1: six pounds each and tie them up in cloths. They
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  Speaker 1: will come in mighty handy. Hello, here are some more
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  Speaker 1: of the boys. A minute later, eight more cowboys wrote up, Hello, Bronco,
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  Speaker 1: I thought we should find your crowd here. We've ridden
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  Speaker 1: all we knew to be here in time to go
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  Speaker 1: on with you, That is, if you are going on.
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  Speaker 1: We're going on as far as we can. I we're
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  Speaker 1: just changing horses. I think there are about enough left
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  Speaker 1: to give you one each. Have you any news which
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  Speaker 1: way the Redskins have gone? Not yet, Old man Rutherford
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  Speaker 1: followed him up. I expect he will be here soon.
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  Speaker 1: If not, we shall meet him. They've got twenty hours start.
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  Speaker 1: That is the worst of it. No, there ain't no
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  Speaker 1: chance of overtaking them, that is certain. What we've got
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  Speaker 1: to do is wipe some of them out, and to
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  Speaker 1: give them a lesson and get the girls back again
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  Speaker 1: if we can, and we've got to do it quick,
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  Speaker 1: else we shall have the whole engine country up again us.
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  Speaker 1: I did not think that they would have done it.
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  Speaker 1: Another man said, the old men were always good friends
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  Speaker 1: with the engines, and made them welcome when they came along.
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  Speaker 1: It ain't no good being kind to engines. Another put in,
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  Speaker 1: there ain't no gratitude in them. Engines are poison, Bronco said,
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  Speaker 1: and a general murmur of agreement expressed that in the
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  Speaker 1: opinion of the cowboys, this summed up the characteristics of
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  Speaker 1: the Redskins. In a few minutes, the newcomers were provided
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  Speaker 1: with fresh horses. A spare horse was taken on for Rutherfoot,
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  Speaker 1: and then headed by the survivors of the raid. The
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  Speaker 1: party started three and twenty strong. They traveled fast, not
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  Speaker 1: that there was any occasion for speed, but because every
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  Speaker 1: man was burning with a desire to get at the enemy.
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  Speaker 1: After riding about twenty miles, they checked their horses for
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  Speaker 1: a fire was seen a short distance ahead. That's all right,
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  Speaker 1: one of the settlers said, that will be Rutherford, sure enough.
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  Speaker 1: It is just there where the valley forks. He is
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  Speaker 1: waiting there for us. He would know we shouldn't want
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  Speaker 1: a guide as far as this. As they came up,
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  Speaker 1: a tall figure rose from beside the fire. Well, Steve,
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  Speaker 1: have you tracked them? Jim Gatling, the youngest of the
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  Speaker 1: party from the village, asked eagerly. They've gone over the
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  Speaker 1: divide into the Springer Valley. Have followed that some way,
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  Speaker 1: and then through the little canyon up towards the headwaters
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  Speaker 1: of the Pekina Creek. I only went through the canyon
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  Speaker 1: to see which way they turned, and then made back here.
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  Speaker 1: I guessed some of you would be coming along about
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  Speaker 1: this time. Was they riding fast? No, they halted here
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  Speaker 1: for some hours. I reckon they had ridden a long
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  Speaker 1: way before they attacked our place. I saw their fires
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  Speaker 1: sometime before I got to them, or I might have
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  Speaker 1: walked into them, for I didn't think they would have
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  Speaker 1: halted so soon. I tied the hoss up and scouted
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  Speaker 1: around them, and when they started this morning before daylight,
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  Speaker 1: took up the trail after them. They weren't traveling very fast,
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  Speaker 1: you see. They had got about one hundred head of
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  Speaker 1: cattle with them, and I reckon they have three or
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  Speaker 1: four days journey before them. As far as I could
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  Speaker 1: make out from what I see to them, they don't
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  Speaker 1: belong to this part at all, Sartain. They was going
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  Speaker 1: easy and didn't reckon on being followed. It ain't often
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  Speaker 1: they get chased when they are once in the hills. Well, boys,
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  Speaker 1: I am glad to see you, and I thank y'all.
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  Speaker 1: It is what I expected from you, for I felt
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  Speaker 1: sure that when you got the news, you would muster up.
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  Speaker 1: We've brought a fresh horse for you, Steve Jim Gatling said,
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  Speaker 1: we drove in a herd this afternoon and they all
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  Speaker 1: changed back there, so we are ready to ride at once.
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  Speaker 1: That's good, Jim. I was wondering over that and thinking
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  Speaker 1: that if yours had come in from the plains, they
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be fit for any more travel tonight, for I
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  Speaker 1: knew there was a long way out. Where were you, Bronco.
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  Speaker 1: We were on Little Creek, Ah, that's about sixty miles
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  Speaker 1: away from our place. While, boys, we may as well
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  Speaker 1: go on over the divide and down into the valley
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  Speaker 1: there we had best camp. You will have done one
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  Speaker 1: hundred miles by e then, and we'll want sleep. Besides,
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  Speaker 1: we mustn't knock the horses up. They've got their work
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  Speaker 1: before them, and maybe we shall have to ride on
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  Speaker 1: our way back. How many of the skunks are there
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  Speaker 1: over forty We shan't have much trouble with that lot, Bronco,
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  Speaker 1: Harry said, not if we catch them before they get
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  Speaker 1: to their village, Bronco. But I doubt whether we shall
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  Speaker 1: do that. Why we will fight them, Steve, if there
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  Speaker 1: was four hundred of them, Harry said, come to get
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  Speaker 1: your rosie in the other's back, and we are going
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  Speaker 1: to do it. You bet. Rutherford held out his hand
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  Speaker 1: and gripped out of the cowboy. Then mounting the horse
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  Speaker 1: that had been brought for him, he took his place
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  Speaker 1: at the head of the party and led the way.
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  Speaker 1: It was a toilsome journey over the shoulder that divided
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  Speaker 1: the two valleys. The pace was necessarily confined to a walk,
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  Speaker 1: and it was five hours before they reached the stream
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  Speaker 1: upon which they were to camp. Here, the horses were
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  Speaker 1: turned loose to grace, and the men threw themselves down
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  Speaker 1: upon the ground and were soon asleep, For it was
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  Speaker 1: now past midnight. With the dawn of day. They were
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  Speaker 1: on their feet again, a great fire lighted, and some
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  Speaker 1: of the mutton cut up and cooked, and some cakes baked.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as the meal was eaten, they again started.
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  Speaker 1: Hugh had not changed his horse at the village. Bronchoherry
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  Speaker 1: told him that it was not likely they would travel
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  Speaker 1: for many hours that evening, and he knew that Prince,
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  Speaker 1: who had had an easy time of it lately, could
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  Speaker 1: easily do this, and he greatly preferred keeping him, for
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  Speaker 1: he felt that upon such an expedition as this, his
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  Speaker 1: speed might be of the greatest utility. A rapid rise
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  Speaker 1: of ten miles up the valley took them to the
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  Speaker 1: mouth of the canyon, which came into the mountain valley
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  Speaker 1: at the sharp angle. It was wide at the entrance,
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  Speaker 1: but soon narrowed down into a gorge from ten to
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  Speaker 1: twenty feet wide, with rocks rising precipitously on both sides.
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  Speaker 1: It was evident that the smoothly worn face that in
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  Speaker 1: the wet season a tremendous torrent rushed down, filling it
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  Speaker 1: thirty or forty feet deep. But it was perfectly dry now,
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  Speaker 1: and for the most part they were able to ride
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  Speaker 1: at a fair pace. Here and there, however, masses of
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  Speaker 1: rock had fallen down from above since the last rains,
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  Speaker 1: and here they had to dismount and allow the horses
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  Speaker 1: to clamber over by themselves as best they could. At
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  Speaker 1: such spots, scratches upon the face of the stones showed
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  Speaker 1: where the party they were pursuing had passed on the
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  Speaker 1: previous day. The canyon was upwards of a mile in length,
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  Speaker 1: and the valley into which it led with some hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of feet higher than that which they had left. As
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  Speaker 1: soon as they emerged from the pass, they put their
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  Speaker 1: horses into a gallop, the track of the party before
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  Speaker 1: them being plainly visible. As they got deeper among the mountains,
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  Speaker 1: the scenery became very wild. Forests clothed the hills, great
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  Speaker 1: masses of rock towered above the valley, and huge blocks
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  Speaker 1: of stone encumbered the route they had to pursue. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: the track left the bottom and wound up the hillside,
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  Speaker 1: passing at times along the ledges with precipices above and below.
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  Speaker 1: Anxious as they were to press forward, much of the
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  Speaker 1: journey had to be performed at a footpace. For many
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  Speaker 1: of the horses, having been brought up on the plains
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  Speaker 1: all their lives, were fidgety and nervous on such unaccustomed ground,
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  Speaker 1: and required coaxing and care to get them along the passes.
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  Speaker 1: They traveled until late in the afternoon and then halted.
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  Speaker 1: The next day's work was of the same character. They
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  Speaker 1: were now high among the hills, and Steve told them
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  Speaker 1: that they were near the crest of the range. We
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  Speaker 1: had better stop here, Rutherford said, about three o'clock in
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  Speaker 1: the afternoon, as they arrived at a little stream. We
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  Speaker 1: must have knocked the critters up. They have done a
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  Speaker 1: good day's work already. We have gained upon them, Steve
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  Speaker 1: Bronco Harry said, the traces have been getting fresher. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: we have gained a bit, but not much. Their horses
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  Speaker 1: would go faster than ours, because they are accustomed to
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  Speaker 1: the mountains, but the idle will have kept them back.
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  Speaker 1: Why and stop here is because there is a sort
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  Speaker 1: of wall of rock with a passage up through it
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  Speaker 1: a mile or two ahead. And though I don't expect
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  Speaker 1: they have any idea they are followed, they are like
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  Speaker 1: enough to have left a sentry on top of that wall.
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  Speaker 1: It it never due for them to attack, is here
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  Speaker 1: We should have no show at all. I want to
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  Speaker 1: get my girl back but throwing away our lives ain't
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  Speaker 1: the way to do it. Be careful how you pick
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  Speaker 1: the wood for the fires. Boys, we mustn't let any
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  Speaker 1: smoke go curling up. You've got to see that every
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  Speaker 1: bit you put on is as dry as a chip.
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  Speaker 1: How on earth do the Indians manage to live among
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  Speaker 1: these hills, Hugh asked, after the meal had been cooked
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  Speaker 1: and eaten. The country is different on the other side,
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  Speaker 1: Jim Gatlik said. We're pretty near up to the top
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  Speaker 1: of the divide now, and on the other side the
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  Speaker 1: slopes are much more gradual. They have plenty of ranges
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  Speaker 1: where they have got cattle and sheep. But I don't
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  Speaker 1: know nothing about the country here. Steve has been over,
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  Speaker 1: but there ain't many as has yes, Rutherford said. It
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  Speaker 1: is as Jim says. There is a wide sort of
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  Speaker 1: plateau with big valleys down to the Canadian We ent
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  Speaker 1: very far now from the frontier of New Mexico, and
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  Speaker 1: from the top of the hills here you can see
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  Speaker 1: the Spanish peaks one hundred and fifty miles away. I
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  Speaker 1: reckon we may have to go down that side. There
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  Speaker 1: are a heap of engine villages up here, and though
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  Speaker 1: we may thrash the lot ahead of us. They would
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  Speaker 1: gather pretty thick in a short time, and like enough
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  Speaker 1: cut us off going back, For they know the tracks
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  Speaker 1: better than we do, and their horses would go at
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  Speaker 1: a gallop along places where we should have to drag ours.
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  Speaker 1: Going down the other way, we can ride as fast
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  Speaker 1: as they can, and when we once get down in
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  Speaker 1: the valley of the Canadian, we shall get help at
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  Speaker 1: the ranches there. That will certainly be the best way,
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  Speaker 1: Steve Bronco Harry said, We're all ready to fight any
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  Speaker 1: number of them on the plains, but it wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: good to be hemmed up among these hills with no
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  Speaker 1: chance of help. We should keep them off our reckon
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  Speaker 1: till we had eaten our boots, but they would make
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  Speaker 1: an end of us at last. Sure have you often
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  Speaker 1: been along this line before, Steve? Once I came across
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  Speaker 1: here with a party of redskins, just after the last
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  Speaker 1: piece were made with them, when it was sure that
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  Speaker 1: they wouldn't break out again until they had got their presence.
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  Speaker 1: I'd got a stock of beads and looking glasses and
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  Speaker 1: cottons and such like, and went up with a couple
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  Speaker 1: of mules and traded among them for skins and worked
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  Speaker 1: robes and moccasins and Indian trumpery. I sent them back
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  Speaker 1: east and did a pretty good trade with them. But
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  Speaker 1: I know the other side well. I was ranching two
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  Speaker 1: years down on the Canadian and we had two or
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  Speaker 1: three fights with the Redskins, who was pretty troublesome about
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  Speaker 1: that time. There weren't many ranches down there then, and
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  Speaker 1: we had to look pretty spry to keep the hair
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  Speaker 1: on our heads. And how do you propose to work
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  Speaker 1: it now, Steve Well? I reckon that if they had
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  Speaker 1: got a sentry on them rocks I spoke of, he
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  Speaker 1: won't stay there after dark, and that the danger will
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  Speaker 1: be at the other end of the pass. Like enough,
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  Speaker 1: there will be one or two of them there. I reckon.
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  Speaker 1: The best plan will be for me and Jim Gatlin
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  Speaker 1: and a couple of the others to go on ahead quiet.
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  Speaker 1: If we find any of the skunks there, in course,
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  Speaker 1: we shall wipe them out. When we have done that,
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  Speaker 1: the rest can come up the pass. It ain't no
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  Speaker 1: place for anyone as doesn't know every foot of the
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  Speaker 1: way to come up in the dark. And you must
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  Speaker 1: make torches ready to light up when one of us
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  Speaker 1: goes back with the news that the pass is clear.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as we have done with the Redskins, Jim
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  Speaker 1: and I will go off scouting. You see, we don't
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  Speaker 1: know yet what ban this is or how far their
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  Speaker 1: village is away. We will follow on the trail, and
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  Speaker 1: when the rest get up through the pass, they must
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  Speaker 1: wait till we bring them word our reckon from their
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  Speaker 1: coming by this road. As their place is about fifteen
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  Speaker 1: mile from the top of the pass. There's a big
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  Speaker 1: village there, and I expect they belong to it. I
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  Speaker 1: reckon they are just getting there now, and they will
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  Speaker 1: be feasting pretty considerable tonight. It are a pity we
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  Speaker 1: ain't handy. However, it cannot be helped. We should risk
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  Speaker 1: it all if we was to try to push on
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: before it got dark. Your plan seems to pan out
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: all right, Steve, who will you take with you? Well,
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: you and long Tom may as well come Bronco, though
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: I reckon it don't make much difference for you. All
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: means fighting. As soon as it became dark, the party
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: again moved forward. That's the rock, Brutherford said, pointing to
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: a long dark line that rose up before them. They
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: can't see us here, and I reckon if there were
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: a scout there, he has moved off before this. Now
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: do you other fellas take our critters and just move
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: on slowly. You see that point sticking up above the line,
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: while that is on one side of the pass, So
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: you just make for that and stop when you get there,
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: till one of us comes back. The torches have been
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: prepared during the halt, two or three young pitch pines
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: having been cut down and split up for the purpose.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: The four scouts moved off at a quick walk, and
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: the rest of the party picked their way along slowly
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: and cautiously toward the point Steve had indicated. They had
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: some little trouble in finding the entrance to the pass,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: but when they discovered it, they threw the bridles on
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: their horses necks and dismounted. The time went slowly, but
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: it was not more than two hours before they heard
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: a slight noise up the pass, and a minute or
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: two later of footfall. Is that you, Bronco, Hugh asked,
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: no it or me, But it is all the same thing.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: I reckon, Jehosaphat, but I have knocked myself pretty night
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: at pieces among them blessed rocks. It air just it's
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: just as dark as a cave. There ain't no sea
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: in your hand. Well is it all right, Tom, No,
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: it ain't gone off right. When we got to the
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: top of the pass there were two Redskins sitting at
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: a fire. We come along as quiet as we could,
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: but just as we got in sight of them, I
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: suppose they heard something, for they both jumped on to
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: their feet and were out of sight like a streak
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: of lightning. We waited without moving for a half an hour.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: Then they came back again. We could have shot, but
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: Steve reckoned. It was too great a risks, so he
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: and Jim undertook to crawl forward, while Bronco and me
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: were to keep ready to shoot at the Redskins made
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: a bolt. It were a long time, or at least
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: seemed so. The Redskins was restless, and we could see
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: that it was on the listen. Well, at last they
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: both jumped, but it were too late. Steve and Jim fired,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: and down they both went, and we came on. The
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: worst of the business were that one of their horses
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: broke loose and bolted. Steve's fired after him. He may
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: have hit him or he may not. Anyhow, he went off,
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: So now you've got to hurry up, all, you know.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: The torches were at once lit and leading their horses.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: The party made their way up the gorge. It was
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: steep and narrow and encumbered with boulders, but in half
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: an hour they reached the other end. Broncho Harry was
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: awaiting them. We have got to move away to the
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: right for about a half a mile and stop there.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: There is a clump of trees, and that is where
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: we are to wait. An air eternal bad business. That
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: air hoss getting away. He's pretty sure to bring the
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: engines down on us. Steve ain't going very far, he says.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: There is another village about three miles from the one,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: he thinks most likely, and when he gets about four
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: miles away from here, he will be able to see
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: which way the tracks go, and then he will come
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: straight back to the trees. Do you think you hit
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: the horse, Harry, Hugh asked, as they made their way
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: to the clump of trees. You don't suppose I could
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: miss a horse if I'd tried, Hugh, I hit him
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: sure enough. Worse luck, if I had missed him, it
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: wouldn't have mattered so much. If he can't galloping in
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: by himself, they might have thought he had got scared
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: at something by a bar perhaps, and had just made
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: tracks for the camp enough. They would have sent off
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: four men to see if it were all right. But
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: when the blessed thing turns up with a bullet in
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: his hide, they will know there has been a fight.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: What do you think they will do, then, Harry? Are
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: they likely to ride out and force to the gap?
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: They may, and they may not. I should say they won't.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: I should guess they'll just throw out scouts all around
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: their village and wait till morning. They won't know how
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: strong our party is, and wouldn't take the risk of
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: being ambushed in the dark. Perhaps when the horse goes
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: in they won't notice it, especially as they will be
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: feasting and dancing. I don't reckon that worth a scent, Hugh.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: They are safe to be one or two of their
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: boys out looking after the horses. Besides those Varmin's ears
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: are always open. They would hear a horse coming out
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: of gallop across the plane a half a mile away, Aye,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: and more than that. Directly the boy sees the horses saddled,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: he will run in and tell them, and then they
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: will take it in by the fire and look at it.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: When they see the mark I've made on it, they
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: will be a nice rump. As you writ. They will
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: know what it means, just as if it were all
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: writt down for them. Hours passed and then the sound
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: of an approaching horse was heard. Well, Steve, what news?
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: The horse has gone on straight for the village the
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: one we thought, and all the other tracks go in
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: that direction. There ain't no chance of taking them by surprise.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Now what do you think they will do, Steve? They
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: will watch all night, that is Sartain, and in the
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: morning two or three will be sent out to scout.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: There ain't many trees about here, and they will reckon
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: that they can see as soon as we see them.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: And those they send out are safe to be on
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: the best horses they have got. In course, we could
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: lie down there by the gap and shoot them when
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: they come up, but I don't see as that would
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: do us any good when they didn't get back. It
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: would only put the others more on their guard than ever.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: If we don't shoot them, they will find our tracks
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: here and take back news. How many we are I
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: tell you lads, look at it as I will. I
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: don't see no way out of it. And what makes
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: it us is when they take back the news that
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: scouts they left here both been shot, it will go
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: mighty hard. With the captives in the village. I can't
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: see no way out of the kink anyhow. I'm ready
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: to give my life cheerful for Rosie, but I ain't
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: going to ask you to give your lives when I
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: don't see as there is any chance of getting her.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Do you see any way out of the job? Bronco adult, Steve,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: And as you say, there was about forty or fifty
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: of these Barmen in the expedition, and we may reckon
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: there will be as many more able to draw a
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: trigger in the village. That makes eighty four to one.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: It's pretty long odds. If they was out in the plane,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: we might be a match for them. But to attack
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: an engine camp that's waiting and ready ain't the same
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: thing as fighting in the planes. Half of us would
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: go down before we got in, and there would not
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: be no more chance of the rest of us getting
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: the captives away than there would be if they was
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: in the moon. If it hadn't been for this affair
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: of the hass, we might have carried out your plans,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: and you might have made your way into the village.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: And there were just the chance that you might have
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: got them out and brought them along to some likely
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: place where we was handy. But there ain't no need
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: to talk about that. Now they will be guarded that
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: strict that a bird couldn't get to them with a
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: message that ain't to be thought of. Can any of
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: you boys think of anything? No one spoke, then, Hugh said,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: I am only a young hand yet, and I don't
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: know that my ideas are worth anything. But I will
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: tell you what they are, and then you can improve
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: upon them. Perhaps it seems to me that in the
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: first place, we ought to leave, say four men at
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: the gap. If four Indian scouts come out, they ought
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: to shoot or rope three of them and let the
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: fourth escape. If there were only two of them, I
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: would say, let one get away. Well should they do
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: that for Hugh Bronco, Harry asked, in surprise, I will
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: tell you directly, Bronco. All the rest of us except
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: the four who are left on watch, should start at
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: once and make a big circuit and come round to
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: the other side of the village, and stop a mile
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: or so away in hiding at any rate as near
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: as we can get. Why I propose letting one go
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: is this. Suppose three or four scouts go out and
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: none return. The Indians will be sure that they have
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: fallen in a trap somewhere. They won't know how strong
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: we are, or whether we think of making an attack
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: on their village, and they will stop there, expecting us
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: for days perhaps, and then send out scouts again. Now,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: if one gets back with the news that they saw
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: no signs of us until they got close to the gap,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: then three or four shots were fired and his comrades
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: were killed, but he got off without being pursued. It
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: seems to me that they would naturally imagine that there
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: was only a small party at the gap, perhaps three
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: or four men from the village they attacked, who had
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: come out to revenge themselves, and would send out a
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: strong party of their braves at once to attack them.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Of course, the four men left at the gap would
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: directly they had done their work and the Indian was
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: out of sight, mount their horses and make the same
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: circuit as we had done, and join us as quickly
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: as they could. We should be keeping watch, and after
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: seeing the war party ride off, we could dash straight
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: down into the village. Half and perhaps more than half
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: of their fighting men will have gone, and the others,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: making sure that we were still at the gap and
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: that there was no fear of attack, will be careless,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: and we should be pretty well into the village before
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: a shot was fired. Shake, young velop, Steve Rutherford said,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: holding out his hand to Hugh, that era judg medical plan,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: and if it don't succeed at order, there was a
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: general chorus of assent. It beats me altogether. Steve went on,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: how you could have hit on a plan like that
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: when I, who have been fighting engines off and on
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: for the last twenty years, couldn't see my way no
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: more than if I had been a mole. You may
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: be young on the planes lightning for so I have
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: heard them call you, but you couldn't have reasoned it
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: out better if you had been at fifty years. I
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: tell you, a young fella, if I get my Rosie
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: back again, it will be thanks to you. And if
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: the time comes as you want a man to stand
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: by you to the death, you can count Steve Rutherford
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: In and Jim Gatling. The young settler said, Rosie and
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: me were going to get hitched next month, and it
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: don't need no talk to tell you what I feels
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: about it. Which of us shall stay and which of
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: us shall go? Bronco Harry said, you're the only man
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: who knows the country, Steve, so you must go startin
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: long time, and me will stay here. If you like.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: You can give me the general direction of the village,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: and I expect I could make shift to come round
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: and join you. Besides, there will be your trail to follow.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: I don't reckon they will send out those scouts till daylight. Anyhow,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: we won't start before that, and we are safe to
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: be able to follow your trail, then who will stop
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: with us? Will you stay Hugh? No, Hugh said decidedly,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I will go with Steve. I am not a very
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: sure shot with the rifle. You can shoot straight enough.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Broncho Harry said, well, perhaps it isn't that, Harry. But
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: so far as I have had no Indian fighting, and
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: though I am quite ready to go in and do
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: my share in a fight, I tell you fairly that
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: I couldn't shoot men down however hostile in cold blood.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: All right, Hugh, you shan't stay with us when you
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: know the Engines as well as we do. You know
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: that mercy ain't a thing as ever enters their minds,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: and that they murders women and children in cold blood,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: and that if they do take a prisoner, is just
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: to torture him until he dies. You won't feel that way.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: I'll stay with you, Bronco. Jim Gatlin said, I have
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: just seen my house burnt, and the best part of
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: my stock carried away, and a dozen or more of
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: my friends killed or scalped. And you you bet I
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: would kill a redskin at sight, just as I would
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: put my heel on a rattlesnake. Another of the party
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: also volunteered to stay at the gap. No further words
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: were necessary. The party mounted. That's where the village lies, Bronco,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: just about under that star. It is about fifteen miles.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: I've told you, on a straight line, we shall keep
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: over there to the right, and in a couple of
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: miles we should go to where the ground falls, and
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: will travel along there. You can't be wrong. If you
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: keep down the slope there are no chants. Then if
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: your being seen. I don't know just where we shall
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: turn off. There are several dips run down from above,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: and we shall follow one of them up when I reckon,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: we have got a mile or two beyond the village,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: so keep a sharp lookout for our trail there. You
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: needn't bother much about it before, because you can't miss
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: the way, but look sharp at the turnings. I would
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: drop something to show you where we turn off, but
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: if any engine happened to come along, he would be
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: safe to notice it when you give you've ridden far enough,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: keep a sharp lookout for the place when we turn off,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: and then follow the trail carefully. It is rolling ground
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: that side of the village, and I reckon we can
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: get within a half a mile of it. There ain't
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: much fear of their wandering about, and any scouts they
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: have out won't be on that side. So on Steve
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Brotherford led the way. There ain't no need to hurry,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: he said, We've got plenty of time, and I reckon
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: that when we get a bit further we'll dismount and
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: lead the horses. They've had pretty hard work coming up
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: the hills, and I tell you they're likely to want
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: all their speed tomorrow, and some of them will have
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: to carry double if we can't manage to get a
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: hold of the few of the engine ponies. Accordingly, after
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: riding for half an hour, the party dismounted and led
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: their horses for a long distance. This was a novel
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: exercise to the cowboys, for it is rare for one
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: of them to walk a hundred yards. A horse stands
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: ever ready at hand, and if it be only to
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: go down to the stream hard by to fetch a
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: bucket of water, the cowboy will always throw his leg
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: over his horse. But all felt the justice of Steve's remarks.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: They knew that they had at least one hundred mile
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: ride before they could hope to meet friends, and that
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: the pursuit would be hot. It was therefore of vital
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: importance that the horses should start as fresh as possible.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: After three hours walking, they mounted again and continued their
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: way until Steve Rutherford said that he thought they had
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: gone far enough. Now. The moon had risen it two
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: o'clock and its light had enabled them to travel fast
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: since they had remounted. Turning up a hollow, they followed
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: it for about two miles, and then found they were
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: entering a hilly and rugged country. Here we are, Steve said,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: The village lies at the foot of these rocks. I
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: don't know how far along it may be, but I'm
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: right sure that we have got beyond it. Now, boys,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: you can sleep till daylight. I'll keep watch and see
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: that none of the horses stray. In a few minutes,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: it was all quiet in the little valley, save for
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: the sound that the horses cropping at the short grass.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: In the first gleam of daylight, Rutherford stirred up one
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: of the sleepers. I'm going to scout, he said, when
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: the others wait, tell them to be sure not to
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: stir out of this dip, and to mind that the
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: horses don't show on the skyline. The engines will be
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: keeping their eyes open this morning, and if they caught
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: sight of one of them critters, it would just spoil
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: the whole plan was gone. Two hours long before his return,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: all the men were up and about. Bill Royce had
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: gone a little farther up the valley, which narrowed to
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: a ravine, and climbing the rocks cautiously, had taken a
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: survey of the country. No signs of the village, he
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: said when he returned, and no signs of engines as
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: far as I can see. So I think if we
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: go up to the head of this gulch, it'll be
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: safe to make a fire and cook the rest of
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: our meat. There ain't more than enough for one more feet.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: After that, I reckon we shall have to take to
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: horse flesh. Now half of us will go up and cook,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: and the other half keep watch here. We may have
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Steve coming back with twenty redskins on his track. Just
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: as they had fried their meat, Steve returned. We were
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: about three miles from the village, he said, But keeping
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: along that the foot of the hills, we can get
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: to within a half a mile of it safe. Beyond
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: that is a chance. What are you doing cooking? Well,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: one must eat, but the sooner we get on, the better.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: We want to watch how things go. As soon as
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: the meal was finished, the party mounted, and, keeping close
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: to the foot of the hill, rode on till Steve said,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: we cannot go beyond that next bluff, so turn up
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: this gulch. I looked in, and there is a good
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: feed for the horses there. You'd better look round when
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: you get in to see as there ain't no bar,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: nothing to scare the horses, and two of you at
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: best stay on guard here at the mouth. If one
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: of them critters were to get Loosa to scoot out
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: below there, our lives wouldn't be worth of red scent. Now, Stumpy,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: you and Owen and me will go up over there.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: From among them bushes, just at the foot of the rock,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: we can see the camp and we will take it
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: by turns to keep watch. If you others will take
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: my advice, you will all get as much sleep as
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: you can till we come for you. But mind keep
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: two on guard here. Can I come with you? Steve
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Hugh asked, I don't feel like sleep at all. You
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: could take my place. Lightning Royce said, I ain't in
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: no hurry to look at the engines. I expect I
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: shall see plenty of them before we are done. End
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: of Chapter twelve, read by Dorry Smith.