Hamp Sidford Frederick. The Trail of The Badger: A Story of the Colorado Border Thirty Years Ago
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. Dick Stanley
CHAPTER II. Sheep and Cinnamon
CHAPTER III. The Mescalero Valley
CHAPTER IV. Racing the Storm
CHAPTER V. How Dick Brought the News
CHAPTER VI. The Professor's Story
CHAPTER VII. Dick's Diplomacy
CHAPTER VIII. The Start
CHAPTER IX. Antonio Martinez
CHAPTER X. The Padron
CHAPTER XI. The Spanish Trail
CHAPTER XII. The Badger
CHAPTER XIII. The King Philip Mine
CHAPTER XIV. A Change of Plan
CHAPTER XV. Dick's Snap Shot
CHAPTER XVI. The Old Pueblo Head-Gate
CHAPTER XVII. The Bridge
CHAPTER XVIII. The Big Flume
CHAPTER XIX. Pedro's Bold Stroke
CHAPTER XX. The Memorable Twenty-Ninth
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"Look out! Look out! Behind you, man! Behind you! Jump quick, or he'll get you!"
It was a boy, a tall, spare, wiry young fellow of sixteen, who shouted this warning, his voice, in its frantic urgency, rising almost to a shriek at the end; and it was another boy, also tall, spare and wiry, to whom the warning was shouted. The latter turned to look behind him, and for one brief instant his whole body stiffened with fear – his very hair stood on end. Nor is this a mere figure of speech: the boy's hair did actually stand on end: he could feel it "creep" against the crown of his hat. I know– for I was the boy!
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But Tim was deaf to entreaty; all the blandishments of his anxious wife were without effect, and if she could not get him to come down it appeared as though nobody could.
Tim, though, was a popular young fellow, and it was not in the nature of a Colorado miner, or of an Irishman either – for they hold together like burrs in a horse's tail – to desert a comrade in distress. So, Mrs. Donovan having failed, there stepped to the front a short, thick-set, red-haired man, Mike O'Brien by name, Tim's partner and particular crony, who, talking pleasantly and naturally to him, as though his friend were quite sane and rational, stepped into the water and waded carefully up the steep slope.
