Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-03-18

move upon Its naked face with infinite
care.
Toiling and resting and toiling again
we wore away the morning, and about
noon lay down in a thick bush of heather
to sleep Alan took the first watch, and
it seemed to me | bad scarce closed my
eyes before was shaken up 10 take the
second We had no clock To go by, and
Alan stuck sprig Of heath i'll the ground
to serve instead, so that us soon as the
shadow of the bush should fall so far to
the east might know to rouse him. But
| was by this time so weary that could
have slept twelve hours at Il stretch;
had the taste of sleep in my throat; my
joints slept even when my mind was
waking: the hot smell of the heather
and the drone Of the wild bees were like
possets to me. and every now and again
| would give jump and lind had been
doing.
The last time woke seemed to come
back from farther away, and thought
the sun had taken great start in the
heavens. | looked at the sprig of heath
and at that could have cried aloud
for saw had BETRAYED my trr t. My
head was nearly turned with fear and
shame. and at what | saw. when
looked out around Inc on the muir. my
heart was like dying in my body For
sure enough il body Of horse soldiers had
come down during my sleep and were
drawing near to us from the southeast,
spread out i'll the shape of a fan, and
riding their horses to and fro in the deep
parts of the heather.
When walked Alan he glanced first
at the soldiers. then at the mark and the
position of the sun, and knitted his brows
with a sudden, quick look, both ugly
and anxious. which was all the reproach
had of him,
What are we to do now" | asked.
We'll have to play at being hares,
said he. DO We see yon mountain?
pointing to one on the northeastern sky.
AYE" sud |.
well. then" says be. ''let us strike
for that. It's name is Ben Alder; it is a
wild, desert mountain full of hills and
hollows, and if we can win to it before
this morn we may do yet"
"But, Alan" cried l, "that will take
us across the very coming of the SOL
diersr
II ken that fine," said he; "but If we
are driven back on Appin we are two
dead men. So now, David, man, be
brisk!'
With that he began to run forward on
his hands and knees with an incredible
ouickness, as though it We're his natural
way of going All the time, too, he kept
winding III and ont in the lower parts of
the moorland where we were the best
concealed.
Now and then indeed where was a
big bush of heather we lay awhile and
painted, and putting aside the leaves
looked back at the dragons. They had
not spied MS, for they held straight on;
half troop, think, covering about two
miles of ground and beating it mighty
thoroughly as they went.
At length, in the first cleaning of the
night, we heard trumpet sound, and
looking back from among the heather
~
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of the waste.
At this l begged and besought that
we IilSn' no GOWN ., anu sleep'
mere siialI DC NO sieep .iio nlsii'.
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