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But the man was too near to be deceived. 1nd though Al was past him, the In- :lian tried boldly to block Rolt’s way. To Rolt he was the full back of his boyhood’s days. Without decreasing his pace he pretended to swerve, and hen, as the man closed on him. turn- ed and ran right at him, tilted the 'ndian’s chin up with the butt of his men hand so that his head was shov- .-d almost off his shoulders, and so tassed amongst the great dim pines .vhich stood for goal posts, through a r fine of smouldering fires, seeing only ‘he tall thin figure of the tireless run- 1er in front. “Holy smoke!” he panted, as Rolt werhauled him.- “That’s their horse :amp. Let’s chance it, Boss. It’s worth the risk,” and he stole swiftly along through the bushes until they opened out into a narrow swamp, not an acre in extent all told. In it twenty or thirty horses had been picketted, and as luck would have it not a man was in sight. “Cut the ropes or pull the pegs,” gasped A1. and his own jack knife snicked and slashed about the horses. reckless of their heels or of any who might be on the trail. As they ran a horse whinnied, and «.1, checking for a minute, branched 3f! the main trail. “Now jump on and git,” he added, “I’ll finish ’em. Jump, blank it. jump!" he screamed, as the Boss hesitated. and a crashing of brush in the direction of the fires warned him ‘hat the minutes of grace had all but expired. Rolt obeyed him as the last rope was severed, and Al; losing his heal at last, cried in his triumph, “New, :atch us, you swine!” as he swung :imself on to the back of the last .10rse and galloped into the bush. Luckily his horse was not hit, but 1:111 a moment the old man swayed and :111 but toppled from his seat, but 'hou 1gb he rode bare- backed, he got iiis grip again, and in Spite of the Ieadiy sickness which took him and 'he \1a11m trickle from the numbed 0111der he managed to stick on, xiiilst the loose. horses, frightened by he shooting, thundered past, jestling aim as they went, into the darkness 1: which Rolt had vanished. For a mile. perhaps, he let his horse -,al‘:o::. alirost lying on its neck to avoid overhanging boughs. maintain- .ng a precarious position by holding m to the horse’s mane with his unin- jured hand. Sorely against his will he had to let his rifle go. If his enemies caught him the rifle would be useless now, and he had all that he could do for the one good arm left him. As if in answer to his taunt, a dozen ndians dashed into the Opening, and 'our or five rifles were fired point flank at the. retreating figure. When at last he came out upon the prairie he reduced his pace to a lop: and sat up, muttering as he guided his horse with his knees and tried to hold up his wounded arm with his left hand. “Winged, blank them, but not bag- ged yet, nor goin’ to be by any measly Chilcoten,” but though his words were brave his sleeve was very sodden with a warm sticky fluid which still con- tinued to ooze into it, and he was growing so dim of sight and dizzy that he would have ridden right into Rolt, had not his horse shied. Then for the first time since he had grown to man's estate, the old man out a voluntary, but even then he held on to the halter rope, and man- aged to murmur: “All right, Colonel. Don’t shoot. I’m comin’ down,” but he had only a hazy idea that Rolt was blocking the way, his rifle resting across his horse’s back, and of what happened for a while after he spoke he knew again with a. curious bandage tied tightly around his upper arm, and heard the Boss ask whether he thought he could sit on his horse 1: it were led for him. $312 -on ‘2‘ .WhOJe blank. 3514 ..I errzst was immense, and his 1%. W119? he sat up That was the spirit in which he, an, for the matter of that, Rolt, too, rod- all that night. To the rough riders 0; our plains. pain or discomfort are no things to be moaned over or maie much of. Like the beasts of the fi "C in this, unless a wound is bad e110: gh to stop the working of their machix.- ery, they go on as if unhurt. "v'hez, they lie down, it is with them, and with their rivals, the Indians, to die. and that, too, they do quietly. Rolt and Al would willingly have given in. Their bodies (:11. d to them for mercy, for leave to slide out 0‘ the saddle into the swezt-sm llln sage brush and lie still. but thouh bOth were utterly spent. though 1e ther had tasted food for tv.'u11ty-f_>-.z hours. and on; was badly ‘~‘.'..‘.ut.zd-d. the thought of the lonely ranch wi h the two women in it was always b fore their eyes. and l' = 4 them plm‘. ding on, tryimr hard to abs ravt thei minds from the painful prtsezzt, whi h had to be lived through. Th» nigh waxed and waned for them, riding, in this fashion, whilst the unseen tree}; of Indian horses pattered behird them. now stopping to graze), no 3a . loping after them in alarm lrSt they should lose sight of their mat s. Withâ€"{fie mist streak of dawn they debouched upon the edge of the home pasture, powdered by a thin fall of SHOW. “Rufus, and Old Regent,” muttered Rolt, as he paused for a moment by two snow-sprinkled carcases. “What accursed butchery! Vvâ€"â€"â€"‘â€" “There’s more of the same kind,” replied A1 feebly, pointing to other similar mounds. “They’ve rounded up and killed all the stock they could come near; but thank God for that!” and he held his one hand out towards the ranch house which came in sight as he spoke. "Itâ€"still stood untouched as far as they could see, nor was there an In- dian in sight in all the country which surrounded it. Rolt made an inarticulate sound. His lips seemed for the moment un- able to move, and then, pointing to the house, he managed to say, “Can youâ€"n “Of course I can, blank it!” replied the old man, with a sudden flash fo energy. “You’d have ridden on an hour ago if you hadn’t been such an unmitigated idiot!” but as the Boss spurred his horse over the rise and down the long meadow which led to all he loved, Al suddenly collapsed, and murmuring: “Your white, pretty blanked white, Rolt." slid easily out 'of his saddle. rolled over, and lay still, whilst his horse, after one snort 01 surprise, began to feed slowly away from his prostrate form. Al had drawn upon his endurance to the very last ounce, and when, a quar- ter of an hour later, Jim Combe came to bring him in. he found the old man still unconscious where he had fallen. In the absence of Rolt, Jim Combe took command of the party at the ranch, and military law was declared: that is to say, Jim insisted upon look- ing on the house as in a state of siege, though. as Anstruther protested, there was not an Indian in sight nor, he averred, ever likely to be again. The men were divided into watches, so that there was not an hour of the day or night when some of them were not on guard. whilst no work was n- dertaken which could lead the e- On the first day after the departure of the posse, shots were heard over the hog’s back, and Jim, who made a reconnaissance in person, reported that a band of Chilcotens was killing cattle, but though the loss inflicted would be serious, he would not listen to Anstruther’s suggestion that an at- tempt should be made to drive off the marauders. He was determined that the story of the burning stacks should not be repeated. It was better to lose any- thing than to expose the women to the danger of a rush upon the house. On the second day there was not even the sound of a shot tokeep up the vigilance of the defenders, and the scouting party sent out by Jim re- ported all clear to the sky line. “Our people have driven the In- dlans clear out of the country,” as, serted Anstruther. “Arson at night is the limit of their daring. It is not likely that such miserable devils would make a stand against armed white men.” fenders to base. But Jim thought otherwise, and de- creed the destruction of certain barns and outhouses beyond the canals, as affording dangerous cover for an at- tacking force. They are valuable buildings in a country where lumber is not as plenti- ful as it is at the coast, and Mrs. Rolt watched the destruction of them with a sore heart. a 5016 UCGL L. “It seems a pity, doesn’t it?” she said, as she and Kitty, with Austra- ther, watched Jim and his men at work. “but I sunnose Jim is sizhL" CHAPTER XXIII. éini’ distance from their '9' m DURHAM CHRONICLE but-Kis'tém belied .his words. Uuu “nu-a V'â€" “It would bé a terrible sell if the Indians really had gone for good, as Mr. Anstruther thinks}: ---?«'Wé could put up with that, Kitty. don’t you think, although I confess that I don’t like seeing my buildings 7 “Why don't you tell Jim to let then stand till Mr. Rolt comes back? You tell him, Mr. Anspytheg’f valid. I am not even honored with a W“I? Scarcely, Miss Kitty. Jim is commander-in-chief. I am only the in- place on guard.” “fim (1028 not think you are fit to duty yet, and you know that you ar not." “I know that I am fit for very littl~ but I should like to try to be of SOIDL use if the admirable Jim would le. me," said Mr. Anstruther. “He gives you the place of honor a our special guard, sir." I Q _ â€"‘â€"‘Y~e‘s; ih'eflig'évood enough to consider me fit to be left withâ€"in charge 0 the ladies." Mrs. Rolt smiled. She understooc‘ what he would have said, and did n01 make allowances either for the irra tability of an invalid, or the impa- tience of a man put at a disadvantage in the eyes of the woman he loved. iâ€"“V'Ifi‘xtywtdâ€"put up with us yet a littla while," she said. “Dick will be back soon, now.” ki'ttyséid nothing until he had left the room, then she turned to bar friend: “I think Jim treats Mr. Anstruther pretty badly.” "I11 (I ‘vv'U “"_U "Badly? What do you mean, Kitty? He sees that he has the best of every- thing, and never asks him to do a. band’s turn. What more can Mr. An- struther expect?" “I think he would rather have less consideration as an invalidand more work as a man.” “But he can’t do anything.” “Jim might let him try.” “At any other time, yes, and so no doubt he would, and do his work for him after he had made a mess of it, but Jim can’t afford to think of peo- ple’s feelings just now, and to be can- did, I don’t think your friend is show- ing to advantage. We have done all we can for him, and now he sulks.” Kitty flushed to the temples. She knew that there was more than a shadow of truth in Mrs. Rolt’s charge, but her sympathies were with Frank, though even to her he had been cur- iously cold and distant since Jim’s return. Never in her life had Kitty’s bright temper been more sorely tried than during those days of seige. She had been used all her life to have men for her playmates. Now she had no playmates; she had not even a lover. Since his return to the ranch Jim had watched over her and Mrs. Rolt with the most unfailing courtesy; had for- gotten nothing; had forestalled every wish; and even to Anstruther had been courtesy itself; but avoiding any outward demonstration, he had kept Kitty at a distance. “He must be," 'gsggrted‘ Anstfutner, So had her patient. Everything that a man could do to show his gra- titude Fiank had done, but in some undefinable vay he had drawn him- self further away from her every day, until to the poor little woman, the love that had been so nearly spoken seemed now but a dream of her own imagining. Each of the men seemed bent on leaving her to the other. She detest- ed Jim for his many perfections, and could not love Frank because he sim- ply would not let her. -1. To this uncomfortable state of things Dick Rolt returned, acquiesc- ing in all the arrangements which Combe had made. - “I did not tear down the stables un- til you came. but they ought to go along with the other buildings if you think that the Indians are still likely to make trouble." “They may be here any minute. They are too strong to sit down un- der the dressing we gave them. There must be fifty armed men at least, and they know that there are only four of us, and one of us wounded. How is Al now?” "Oh, he will do all right. It was only a flesh wound. He has lost a lot of blood. butthe old chap says that he has plenty more. But if we tear down the stables what are we going to do about the horses?” “Turn them loose to rustle for them- selves, and take their chance of being shot. We can do nothing else.” “It won’t do to leave ourselves with- out horses. We might have to ride for our lives, after all.” “It can’t come to that.” “It might, Rolt. Think of the wo- men.” Rolt groaned. “I’m never thinking of anything else, Jim. What do you advise?” “Well, if you ask me, I should knock out a partition or two, and make the dining-room and one of the others into a stable. It will play the devil with the house, but we can fix that up again when the trouble is over. If you say the word I’ll have feed brought. in, and horses for the ladies and half the men.” “Why half?” “We can’t manage more, and we shouldn’t want them. If it comes to a show down some of us will have to stay to hold the Indians whilst the others get through.” “Which horses shall we bring in?” “Mrs. Rolt’s, Miss Kitty’s, your own, that stallion (he will have mended by now), and two more. The two sorrels I should think are best.” “What about Mr. Anstruther’s hun- ter? “His looks won’t pay for his keep. He ain’t the horse for this job. We aren’t going fox hunting or hurdle jumping, and he’d play out before he got half way. The country breds are the only ones that could stay the dis- tance." “I think you underrate my horse’s staying powersf’ Anstruther had come in unobserved and heard the last remark, and though very calm in speech, he was very white and hiskeyes 'glittered angrily. 66"- “L - -_ -s- ““5‘ 11 “Maybe, but I wouldn’t have thought him any more g00d for this job than them things you was hauling out of your trunk for Miss Kitty to look at. 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