We Started Off Very Much As Usual, Except That Faye
Kept Rather Close To The "Pal," Which Left Bettie And Me Alone Most Of
The Time, Just A Little At One Side.
I noticed that directly back of
the horse thieves walked a soldier, armed with rifle and pistol, and
Faye
Told me that night that he was one of the best sharpshooters in
the Army, and that he was back of those men with orders to shoot them
down like dogs if they made one treacherous move. The buckskin man was
one of the most graceful riders I ever saw, and evidently loved his
fine mount, as I saw him stroke his neck several times - and the man
himself was certainly handsome.
Faye had told me that I must not question anything he might tell me to
do, so after we had crossed the valley and gone up the mountains a
little distance he called to me in a voice unnecessarily loud, that I
must be tired riding so far, and had better get in the ambulance for a
while. I immediately dismounted, and giving the bridle rein to a
soldier, I waited for the ambulance to come up. As I got in, I felt
that perhaps I was doing the first act in an awful tragedy. The
horsemen and wagons had stopped during the minute or two I was getting
in, but I saw soldiers moving about, and just as soon as I was seated
I looked out to see what was going on.
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