The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-07-25

morning sun. The grass grew thick on
the track and no trace of either horse
OF man was visible to civilized eyes,
but presently JaclSy waved his hand
with a motion Of superior knowledge,
and without looking behind him turned
off at an angle towards the stream.
We followed him without question, and
In a few minutes we had reached the
bank. The channel of the stream was
shallow and the bank low and covered
with thick carpet of ferns and flowers,
and still there were no visible marks
of horses hoof 20 be seen. Jacky
stepped from the bank to the large
waterworn pebbles over which the
stream rushed and gurgled as it ran
with a sharp, tinkling music. A few
yards down the creek he crossed and
ascended the bank into the cool shad.
ows of the trees beyond. There he
waited till we joined him.
'White fellow make a walk here" he
said, pointing TO a faint mark among
the leaves and moss; then without an
other word he turned, and with his
head bent low started off at a long,
swinging trot which il was no easy mat
ter to keep up with on the rough, slop.
ing ground amongst the trees.
In this way we had travelled for per-
haps an hour, and in the meantime I
of my fall. The sergeant was not
talkativo companion, and the monot-
onous arcades OF the gum forest were
not disturbed by conversation. Our
guide had never once lifted his eyes
from the ground since we started. At
the same long dog-lilke trot. his huge
head bent forward at the same anglo
and his slender arms hanging loosely
at his sides, he journeyed on.
Suddenly Jacky pulled up and waited
till we reached him. He pointed to
a faint track like bride path that
crossed our line of march and wound
away amongst the trees TO the right.
1t was quite dlstingushable, but evil
IDENTIFY was bat little used. white
fellow go here?" asked tho sergeant,
pointing to the path; Jncky nodded.
The sergeant knit his brows as If in
thought, while Jacky stood and looked
at him exactly as dog might at his
master. "Well," he said, at last, "we've
got to chance IL. There may be more
of them, and again there mayn't.-any-
how, we'll see." He looked up at me
suddenly. ''IIow do you seem to feel
now, young fellow?" he asked. d.><"Fit
to walk for bit, eh?" declared that
1 was all right, and the sergeant and
1 changed places. "Herc," he said.
pulling n revolver out of his belt and
handing it to me, ',youd better carry
this till we see what's up" He I'M
slung the short carbine he carried
across his shoulder as he spoke. "Npw,
.JaclSy," he continued, you make look
white fellow--burra, burra." Jaclty
opened his mouth in portentous grin,
and appeared to find keen enjoyment
in a soundless laugh entirely 10 him
self, rs he turned and trotted along
the bride track.
For three or four hundred yards the
track showed no sign of change. There
was the same dismal succession of
gray tree trunks, the same scanty un-
dergrowth of towering heaths and oc-
casional crimson waratahs, with no
landmark whatever but the faint bride
path that wound through II all. At last
Jacky lifted his head ana stopped, and
the sergeant pulled up his horse and
waited. Jacly threw back his great
head and sniffcd the air suspiciously
through his broad nostrils. "White
fellow burn smoke" he said; white fell
low tupid fellowl"
fright you ore, Jacky," replied tho
sergeant, grimly, as he took look at
the lock of his cnrbine. snow, Jacky,
you make-a-wnlk easy-make-a-look
white fellow" Jacky nodded his big
head, and went slowly forward along
the track. The sergeant and I fol-
lowed.
1t was farther OF than I had be-
lived IL possible even Jacky's nostrils
could have scented smoke. At last,
however, the gray shadows of the for
est were suddenly exchanged for
blaze of sunlight, and we found our
selves on the edge Of little natural
clearing. II was perhaps q hundred
yards across, and at the opposite side
there rose a great shnpeless mass Of
blush gray stone, against the side Of
which rough bush hut had been built.
Out OF the roof thin haze of blue
smoke stole up the face OF the rock
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