Had not untoward10 circumstances intervened, he might still have gone blindly on; for, laying aside the gambling11 fever that was on him, he could ill afford to lose the ten or twelve steers12 somewhere wandering the wide range or huddled14 into some safe place, there to abide15 the time when a daring rustler16 might conveniently play at witchcraft17 with the brand or otherwise dispose of them with profit to himself and with credit to his craft. Moreover, what might possibly never have been missed from the vast herds18 of Langford, his neighbor of the plains country, was of most serious import to Williston for an even weightier reason than the actual present loss.
The existence of the small and independent ranchman was becoming precarious20. He was being hounded by two prolific21 sources of trouble, these sources having a power and insolent22 strength contemptuously indifferent to any claim set up in their paths by one weaker than themselves. On the one hand was the wealthy cattle owner, whose ever-increasing wealth and consequent power was a growing menace to the interests of the small owner whose very bread and butter depended upon his ability to buy and sell to advantage. But with bigger interests slowly but surely gaining control of the markets, who might foretell23 the future? None beheld24 the ominous25 signs more apprehensively26 than did Williston, who for more than two years, striving desperately27 to make good mistakes and misfortunes made back in Iowa, had felt the pinching grow more and more acute. On the other hand was the vicious combination of the boldness, cunning, and greed of the cattle rustlers who harassed28 all the range country of the Dakotas and Nebraska. Annihilation was the sword of Damocles held over the head of the small ranchman. A hand lifted to avert29 impending30 doom31 would have set the air in vibration32 and the sword would have fallen. Nemesis33 was as sure to follow at the hands of the fellowship of rustlers as ever it was at the hands of the Secret Tribunal of old.
Williston was chafing35 under his helplessness as the jaded36 pony climbed doggedly37 this last bluff. To the right of his path a hawk38 was fluttering frantically39 just above the reach of a basilisk-eyed rattlesnake, whose baneful40 charm the ill-advised bird was not able to resist.
“Devil take you, Battle Ax, but you’re slow,” muttered Williston, utterly41 indifferent to the outcome of this battle royal. “I’d give a good deal to sit down this minute to some of my little girl’s flapjacks and coffee. But nothing for us, lazy-bones, till midnight—or morning, more likely. Do walk up as if you had some little standing42 in the world of cow ponies43. You haven’t, of a surety, but you might make an effort. All things are possible to him who tries, you know, which is a tremendous lie, of course. But perhaps it doesn’t apply to poor devils like us who are ‘has beens.’ Here we are. Ah!”
There were no more hills. Almost directly at his feet was one of those precipitous cut-aways that characterize the border bluffs44 of the Missouri River. A few more steps, in the dark, and horse and rider would have plunged45 over a sheer wall of nearly two hundred feet. As it was, Williston gave a gasp46 of involuntary horror which almost simultaneously47 gave place to one of wonder and astonishment48. He had struck the river at a point absolutely new to him. It was the time of low water, and the river, in most of its phases muddy and sullen-looking, gleamed silver and gold with the glitter of the setting sun, making a royal highway to the dwelling-place of Ph?bus. A little to the north of this sparkling highroad lay what would have been an island in high water, thickly wooded with willows49 and cottonwoods. Now a long stretch of sand reached between bluff and island.
Dismounting, with the quick thought that yonder island might hold the secret of his lost cattle, he crept as close to the edge as he dared. The cut was sheer and tawny50, entirely51 devoid52 of shrubbery by means of which one might hazard a descent. The sand bed began immediately at the foot of the yellow wall. Even though one managed to gain the bottom, one would hardly dare risk the deceitful sands, ever shifting, fair and treacherous53. Baffled, he was on the point of remounting to retrace his steps when he dropped his foot from the stirrup amazed. Was the day of miracles not yet passed?
It was the sun, of course. Twelve hours of sun in the eyes could play strange tricks and might even cause a dancing black speck54 to assume the semblance55 of a man on horseback, picking his way easily, though mayhap a bit warily56, across the waste of sand. He seemed to have sprung from the very bowels57 of the bluff. Whence else? Many a rod beyond and above the ghostly figure frowned the tawny, wicked cut-away. Path for neither horse nor man appeared so far as eye could reach. It must be the sun. But it was not the sun.
Motionless, intent, a figure cast in bronze as the sun went down, the lean ranchman gazed steadfastly58 down upon the miniature man and horse creeping along so far below. Not until the object of his fixed59 gaze had been swallowed by the trees and underbrush did his muscles relax. This man had ridden as if unafraid.
“What man has done, man can do,” ran swiftly through Williston’s brain, and with no idea of abandoning his search until he had probed the mystery, he mounted and rode northward60, closely examining the edge of the precipice61 as he went along for any evidence of a possible descent. Presently he came upon a cross ravine, devoid of shrubbery, too steep for a horse, but presenting possibilities for a man. With unerring instinct he followed the cross-cut westward62. Soon a scattering63 of scrub oaks began to appear, and sumach already streaked64 with crimson65. A little farther and the trees began to show spiral wreaths of woodbine and wild grape. Yet a little farther, and doubtless there would be outlet66 for horse as well as man.
But Williston was growing impatient. Besides, the thought came to him that he had best not risk his buckskin to the unknown dangers of an untried trail. What if he should go lame67? Accordingly he was left behind in a slight depression where he would be pretty well hidden, and Williston scrambled68 down the steep incline alone. When foothold or handhold was lacking, he simply let himself go and slid, grasping the first root or branch that presented itself in his dare-devil course.
Arrived at the bottom, he found his clothes torn and his hands bleeding; but that was nothing. With grim determination he made his way through the ravine and struck across the sand trail with a sure realization69 of his danger, but without the least abatement70 of his resolution. The sand was firm under his feet. The water had receded71 a sufficient length of time before to make the thought of quicksands an idle fear. No puff72 of cloudy smoke leaped from a rifle barrel. If, as he more than half suspected, the island was a rendezvous73 for cattle thieves, a place surely admirably fitted by nature for such unlawful operations, the rustlers were either overconfident of the inaccessibility74 of their retreat and kept no lookout75, or they were insolently76 indifferent to exposure. The former premise77 was the more likely. A light breeze, born of the afterglow, came scurrying78 down the river bed. Here and there, where the sand was finest and driest, it rose in little whirlwinds. No sound broke the stillness of the summer evening.
What was that? Coyotes barking over yonder across the river? That alien sound! A man’s laugh, a curse, a heart-breaking bellow79 of pain. Williston parted ever so slightly the thick foliage80 of underbrush that separated him from the all too familiar sounds and peered within.
In the midst of a small clearing,—man-made, for several stumps81 were scattered82 here and there,—two men were engaged in unroping and releasing a red steer13, similar in all essential respects to a bunch of three or four huddled together a little to one side. They were all choice, well-fed animals, but there were thousands of just such beasts herding83 on the free ranges. He owned red steers like those, but was there a man in the cattle country who did not? They were impossible of identification without the aid of their brand, and it happened that they were so bunched as to completely baffle Williston in his eager efforts to decipher the stamp that would disclose their ownership. That they were the illegitimate prey85 of cattle rustlers, he never for one moment doubted. The situation was conclusive86. A bed of glowing embers constantly replenished87 and kept at white heat served to lighten up the weird88 scene growing dusky under the surrounding cottonwoods.
Williston thought he recognized in one of the men—the one who seemed to be directing the procedure of this little affair, whose wide and dirty hat-rim was so tantalizingly89 drawn90 over his eyes—the solitary91 rider whose unexpected appearance had so startled him a short time before. Both he and his companion were dressed after the rough, nondescript manner of cattle men, both were gay, laughing and talkative, and seemingly as oblivious92 to possible danger as if engaged in the most innocent and legitimate84 business.
A little to the left and standing alone was an odd creature of most striking appearance—a large, spotted93 steer with long, peculiar-looking horns. It were quite impossible to mistake such a possession if it had once been yours. Its right side was turned full toward Williston and in the centre of the hip34 stood out distinctly the cleanly cauterized94 three perpendicular95 lines that were the identifying mark of the Three Bars ranch19, one of those same big, opulent, self-centred outfits96 whose astonishingly multiplying sign was becoming such a veritable and prophetic writing on the wall for Williston and his kind.
Who then had dared to drive before him an animal so branded? The boldness of the transgression97 and the insolent indifference to the enormity of attendant consequences held him for the moment breathless. His attention was once more called to the movements of the men. The steer with which they had been working was led away still moaning with surprise and pain, and another brought forward from the reserve bunch. The branded hip, if there was a brand, was turned away from Williston. The bewildered animal was cleverly roped and thrown to the ground. The man who was plainly directing the affair, he of the drooping98 hat and lazy shoulders, stepped to the fire. Williston held his breath with the intensity99 of his interest. The man stooped and took an iron from the fire. It was the end-gate rod of a wagon100 and it was red-hot. In the act of straightening himself from his stooping position, the glowing iron stick in his right hand, he flung from his head with an easy swing the flopping101 hat that interfered102 with the nicety of sight requisite103 in the work he was about to do, and faced squarely that quiet, innocent-looking spot which held the watching man in its brush; and in the moment in which Williston drew hastily back, the fear of discovery beating a tattoo104 of cold chills down his spine105, recognition of the man came to him in a clarifying burst of comprehension.
But the man evidently saw nothing and suspected nothing. His casual glance was probably only a manifestation106 of his habitual107 attitude of being never off his guard. He approached the prostrate108 steer with indifference to any meaning that might be attached to the soft snapping of twigs109 caused by Williston’s involuntary drawing back into the denser110 shadows.
“Y’ don’t suppose now, do you, that any blamed, interferin’ off’cer is a-loafin’ round where he oughtn’t to be?” said the second man with a laugh.
Williston, much relieved, again peered cautiously through the brush. He was confident a brand was about to be worked over. He must see—what there was to see.
“Easy now, boss,” said the second man with an officious warning. He was a big, beefy fellow with a heavy, hardened face. Williston sounded the depths of his memory but failed to place him among his acquaintances in the cow country.
“Gamble on me,” returned the leader with ready good-nature, “I’ll make it as clean as a boiled shirt. I take it you don’t know my reputation, pard. Well, you’ll learn. You’re all right, only a trifle green, that’s all.”
With a firm, quick hand, he began running the searing iron over the right hip of the animal. When he had finished and the steer, released, staggered to its feet, Williston saw the brand clearly. It was J R. If it had been worked over another brand, it certainly was a clean job. He could see no indications of any old markings whatsoever111.
“Too clean to be worked over a lazy S,” thought Williston, “but not over three bars.”
“There were six reds,” said the chief, surveying the remaining bunch with a critical eye. “One must have wandered off while I was gone. Get out there in the brush and round him up, Alec, while I tackle this long-horned gentleman.”
Williston turned noiselessly away from the scene which so suddenly threatened danger. Both men were fully112 armed and would brook113 no eavesdropping114. Once more he crossed the sand in safety and found his horse where he had left him, up the ravine. He vaulted115 into the saddle and galloped116 away into the quiet night.
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