The Red Mustang
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dded: "Dick has had ten miles of easy going and ten miles of running. Not many horses could stand sixty more. I believe he can,
he reined in the red mustang to a steady-going gallop
s, crowded as his mind was with fears and with imagin
him. "Vic, too, and they're brave enough, and they both
of Dick's hoofs. A sharp appetite came, too, and put him in mind of his haversack. He ate as best he could, and the next stream of water he came to invited him to dismou
l at the end of every half-hour, or a little more, but every
hardly attracted a glance from the sore-hearted young messenger. Mountain-tops, easterly, that had been cloudy i
t be Indians. No danger of their
distance nearer, and he was just about
couting around for? Wh
who now came out from behind a clump of mesquit trees, wo
r a score or more of what Cal thought were the best-looking men he ever saw. That is, they were the very men
mner had heard that a band had been seen near El Paso, days ago, and we were coming
re, Captain Moore
id you say? Twenty miles and more before you left Santa Lucia? Forty odd, since, t
must rest their horses. One tough fellow was given only time to eat before he was again moun
needed all the cheerful encouragement of Captain Moore to keep his heart
s impossible for him to spend that night in the cavalry camp. He said so to
way. I'll let you have one of our led horses. You mustn't ride to death that red beauty of yours. W
ood-looking black, he went to say good-bye to Dick, praising and caressi
the black-so stiff, so sore, so almost without any spring left in h
ted Captain Moore. "Go easy and you'll get t
rrying news of help found quicker than he had expected. What then? Would he find Santa Lucia as he had left it? Would it be besieged?
if the black holds out, I'll get home before daylight, and I'll ride
ing of the red mustang, and there was more weariness in riding him. He was
ou must have done about half of them. You're doing well enough, but I never felt so tired in all my lif
anch, but he found that the black was disposed to walk. It might be unwise to urge him any more. At the same time every mile was probably bringing Cal and his news with
d he recovered his senses in the middle of a half-waking dream in
. I'm afraid if I did fall I couldn't climb int
natured black, and Cal did not know how
th the black, and as if he himself had said: "Hullo, Dick. Glad
eam, Cal rode t