Trailin'!
shade and from the tangle of the brush to feed in the open, and the dogs, which had laid one on either side of the man, rose a
to a sharp point in its furthest downward reach near his chin. To the right, to the left, to the right, to the left, while his eyes,
er that he leaned back with a sigh of content; the brown juice had struck fairly and squarely on the centre of th
distant sheep sounded close, mingled with the light clangour of the bells. But the perfect peace was broken rudely now by the form of a horseman looming black and
eni
ng, st
this
ren
I cam
; when he spoke his eyes held steadily and sadly
of nobody who
se over there?
point of land that jutted out onto the waters of the l
op
r and was gone again more quickly than a cloud shad
ce looks pretty good to me
t eat
, I'd like to cast a couple of times over some of the pools I've p
r that owns
What's h
shaggy eyebrows and s
long aroun
N
ew, he owns
der, as though imprinting the w
ay
and ask him if h
home, but he lives on th
ar from
iec
now him whe
-grey-broad
picture pleased him. "I'll hunt him up and ask him
hat's yo
think he'
the house
at
s a grave in
ave?
un
y me. I'll drop over t
. You'll be passin' him
's t
uesdays once a month; to
e I can camp over the
of nobody wh
brings Drew over
I was brung up not
ctious laugh that the shepherd smiled in the very act of spittin
My name is Anthony Bard and I'm out here seeing the mounta
terest, but Bard swung from his hors
d we might as well get acquainted, eh?
Log
now you, M
happen to have no f
Sor
ve got is plug. Kind of hard on
tobacco, though,
h Logan opened, taking f
re he removed the quid from his mouth and introduced the great pinc
ed upon Bard and a l
a price on this t
"to help you forget all t
pouch into the breast pocket of his shirt. Afterward his gaze sought the dim summits of the L
with me if you
summoned, cover
used to camping alone-and
ite relief, "I ain't got much use for company-away from a bar. But I c
I'll explor
nted out. But once fairly out of sight in the second-growth forest, he veered sharply to the right, touc
rotting and crumbling toward the ground, awaiting the shake of one fierce gust of wind to disappear in a cloud of mouldy dust. He left his horse with the reins hanging over its head behind
hese shook and groaned under his weight. A whimsical fancy made him think of the fabled boat of Charon which will flo
. Half the boards, fallen from the ceiling, revealed the bare rafters above; below there were ragged holes in the flooring. In one place a li
t corner-posts supporting cross-beams, which in turn held up the mouldering roof. In the centre was a rude table and on eith
s, like one who shakes off the spell of a nightmare. He strode through t
whose branches were interwoven overhead in a sort of impromptu roof. From the surface of the mound all the weeds and grasses had been carefully clear
y. He studied it with painful care, poring intently over each faint impression. He who cared for the grave had apparently been t
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