'How far away might be Baldy?'
'I couldn't tell you exactly, but I think it is less than ten miles.'
'Be you goin' back to camp to-night?'
'It was my intentionthat is, I meant to do so.'
'Guess I'll go with yer; but see hyar, younker, let's see yer try that
old humbug of yourn.'
The boy sprung into the wagon, glad of the opportunity of getting rid
of what looked like a dangerous man. Before be could start he was
again peremptorily stopped.
'Yer see, I b'leeve yar a humbug, but if that ole thing does run, and,
mind, I tell yer, I don't b'leeve it will, do yer know what I'm goin'
to do?'
'I do not.'
'I'm goin' to take it myself to chase rod-skins in. It won't bother
yer much fur them long legs of yourn to carry that humpback home
again. So, younker, start now, and let us see what yer can do.'
The boy let on steam, and the man started off on a moderate gait,
which rapidly increased to a swift one. The huge, wonder-stricken
hunter watched it until it gradually faded out of sight in the gloom,
and still watched the place where it had disappeared, and though he
watched much longer, with a savage and vindictive heart, yet it never
came back to him again.
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