New Ulm review., 1901-07-10

Old Puts great dark eyes famed
with approval and gladness. He had
stood at his halter's length, watching
the orgy and my rescue with attention
and understanding.
We'll bid farewell to these beasts
now, old comrade, said in a whisper,
patting his nose
He was too cautious to whinny re-
ply. The brown hack was near him, but
saw another among those belonging to
the guerrillas which / fancied much
more than he. I hastily changed Miss
Howard's saddle to his back, assisted
her to mount and sprang upon Old Put
turned the heads of our horses to-
ward the northwest, but as the woods
before us We're dense and interlaced
with wiry bushes and creeping vines
we dared not attempt more than walk
The horses stamped and neighed as we
left them. The girls mount stepped on
a large, dry branch, which broke with
crack like a pistol shot. Nor did ill
luck stop at that The abandoned
horses, frightened by the report, neighed
and stamped again, creating a great up
roar.
The sentinel, who was the least
drunk of the party, sprang to his feet.
He was yet half dazed with sleep and
liquor, but he saw the dim figures of a
man and a woman riding away from the
little encampment, and he knew that,
according to the plans of Captain Grow
der, it was not what should be- He fired
a hasty pistol shot in our direction, the
bullet clipping the dry twigs above our
heads and then shouted to his comrades
to awake, giving emphasis to his cries
with many sturdy kicks.
Look out for your headl" shouted
to Miss Howard. AN untoward bough
might prove fatal. And be sure you stay
with me. -
'sI'll not leave you, she said
Now, Old Put, I said, lead us.
out of this. /"
He curved his long neck in the dark
ness and looked ahead with sharp brown.
eyes l let the reins fall loose, and he
wound about among the trees with a
judgment that was never at fault The
other horse kept close at his side. Be-
awakened men as they leaped upon
their horses and rode after us, shouting
to us to stop. Two or three more pistol
shots were fired, but the air received
them.
If the men could see at all, it was but
dimly, though they could follow us by
the hoof beats of our horses and the
tearing of the vines and slapping of the
bushes as we passed. They made such a
prodigious cursing and swearing that
we were never in any doubt as to where
they were, / had a mind for moment
to send toward them a pistol ball which.
would stop their fuss, but l concluded
that the more noise they made the bet
ter it would be for us, as it gave us ex-
act warning of their approach. They
did not seem to be gaining upon US,
which was satisfaction for the present
Out on the plain they would see us.
more distinctly, but believed that our
horses could leave them there
saw a beam of light shining through
the latticework of the boughs and then
another and another and knew that we
would soon be in the open. The girls
horse stumbled, and she uttered little
cry of dismay, but in moment the,
horse was steady en- his feet again, and
we went on. The beams grew more,
numerous and fused into broad shield
of moonlight. Two minutes more and
we would be out OF the wood and into
the cleared ground. with the fields rae
ing behind us.
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