Trailin'!
that he placed behind him, but days, weeks, months, years, that unrolled and carried him nearer and nearer to the beginning of himself. He heard nothing about him; he saw no
t need size in order to have a mien. Napoleon struck awe through the most gallant of his hero marshals
se, slanting forehead, thin-lipped mouth, and a chin that jutted out to a point, but going back all the lines flared out like a reversed vista. A ridg
ving him quite bald half way back on his head, where a veritable forest of hair began, a
ies down. Then he took his place and sat with his hands folded in his lap, moveless, speechless, with the little keen eyes strai
"is pretty tiresome through m
surveyed him a moment
ffalo on them
n was Anthony, who glanced through the window at the dreary prospect, looked back again, and found that the sharp eyes once more
d deal abou
es
one who wishes to be left in peace,
ony. "I didn't think y
am and eggs, cut off the first egg, manoeuvred it carefully into position on his knife, and raised it toward a mouth
!" said
popped out of its own accord. The oth
ody jogged your arm jest as you pulled
no doubt you're e
nd proved it by disposing of the
know you. My nam
Wilkes. H
shook
er, Mr.
my furthe
pleasa
d the barren, brow
h civili
all
in 'em." He added, "That sound
stirred up,
an' I'll bur
amiliar with the
t aro
ou'd recog
hotograph of the forest and the ranchhouse with the two mo
the Little
to do is to travel to
the
." "Impossible! Why, the mounta
without reply. It was not a sullen resentment; it was
ny, to lure the other
one with
you tell it's
been t
be very hard to find. But I suppose I'll have to travel in a
o waste a pile
ould lead me rig
cou
ow
ive miles straight no
the
l can you tel
Mostly it's jest plain sand and rock. The trees live because they got protection from that north wind. Nature puts moss on 'em on the north side to shelter 'em from that same wind. Look at that picture close. You see
w did you ge
ed
ike to find the h
t none too po
e that your suggestion w
g except my gun whe
ine trees and the house-if I don
l be in ruin
hy
was taken a
mind of a pictu
N
however, wi
t's chop
o you mean to say you know tha
ry's been cut over. D'you think they
d Anthony with a frown, "for
be n
don't know the people, I haven't worn the
ople is pretty generally men and women; the clothes they
follows: "Maybe some of 'em don't talk good book English. Quite a pile ain't had much eddication; in fact there ain't awful many like me. But they can
ught the habit from me. I'm simply go
on the range where excitement growed like fruit on a tree. It was like that there manna in the Bib
igh: "But them ti
hard on
ed. Things are gettin' pretty crowded, but the
nothing which distinguishes th
ing, partner. Get that
East and said that, people mig
But I heard a feller say once that the funny thing abou
s if trying
el
ans, Mr