“I’ve been hearing them some little while,” she whispered.
“The Captain Adams men may be trailing us?”
Suddenly the fog was shot with gold, as the sun flashed in. In obedience8 to the command a slow and stately movement began, by all the troops of mist. The myriad9 elements drifted in unison10, marching and countermarching and rearranging, until presently, while we crouched11 intent to fathom12 the secrets of their late camp, a wondrously13 beautiful phenomenon offered.
The great army rose for flight, lifting like a 273blanket. Gradually the earth appeared in glimpses beneath their floating array, so that whereas our plot of higher ground was still invested, stooping low and scanning we could see beyond us by the extent of a narrow thinning belt capped with the heavier white.
“There!” she whispered, pointing. “Look! There they are!”
Feet, legs, moving of themselves, cut off at the knees by the fog layer, distant not more than short rifle range: that was what had been revealed. A peculiar14, absurd spectacle of a score or two of amputated limbs now resurrected and blindly in quest of bodies.
“No! Leggins! Moccasins! They are Indians. We must leave right away before they see us.”
With our stuff she ran, I ran, for the mules16. We worked rapidly, bridling17 and saddling while the fog rose with measured steadiness.
“Hurry!” she bade.
The whole desert was a golden haze18 when having packed we climbed aboard—she more spry than I, so that she led again.
As we urged outward the legs, behind, had taken to themselves thighs19. But the mist briefly20 eddied21 down upon us; our mules’ hoofs23 made no sound appreciable24, on the scantily25 moistened soil; we lost the legs, and the voices, and pressing the pace I rode beside her.274
“Where?” I inquired.
“As far as we can while the fog hangs. Then we must hide in the first good place. If they don’t strike our trail we’ll be all right.”
The fog lingered in patches. From patch to patch we threaded, with many a glance over shoulder. But time was traveling faster. I marked her searching about nervously26. Blue had already appeared above, the sun found us again and again, and the fog remnants went spinning and coiling, in last ghostly dance like that of frenzied27 wraiths28.
Now we came to a rough outcrop of red sandstone, looming29 ruddily on our right. She quickly swerved30 for it.
“The best chance. I see nothing else,” she muttered. “We can tie the mules under cover, and wait. We’ll surely be spied if we keep on.”
“Couldn’t we risk it?”
“No. We’ve not start enough.”
In a moment we had gained the refuge. The sculptured rock masses, detached one from another, several jutting31 ten feet up, received us. We tied the mules short, in a nook at the rear; and we ourselves crawled on, farther in, until we lay snug32 amidst the shadowing buttresses33, with the desert vista34 opening before us.
The fog wraiths were very few; the sun blazed more vehemently35 and wiped them out, so that through the marvelously clear air the expanse of lone36, weird37 275country stood forth38 clean cut. No moving object could escape notice in this watchful39 void. And we had been just in time. The slight knoll40 had been left not a mile to the southwest. I heard My Lady catch breath, felt her hand find mine as we lay almost touching41. Rounding the knoll there appeared a file of mounted figures; by their robes and blankets, their tufted lances and gaudy42 shields, yes, by the very way they sat their painted ponies43, Indians unmistakably.
“They must have been camped near us all night.” And she shuddered44. “Now if they only don’t cross our trail. We mustn’t move.”
They came on at a canter, riding bravely, glancing right and left—a score of them headed by a scarlet45-blanketed man upon a spotted46 horse. So transparent47 was the air, washed by the fog and vivified by the sun, that I could decipher the color pattern of his shield emblazonry: a checkerboard of red and black.
“A war party. Sioux, I think,” she said. “Don’t they carry scalps on that first lance? They’ve been raiding the stage line. Do you see any squaws?”
“All warriors. But squaws would be worse.”
On they cantered, until their paint stripes and daubs were hideously50 plain; we might note every detail of their savage51 muster52. They were paralleling our outward course; indeed, seemed to be diverging53 from our ambush54 and making more to the west. And 276I had hopes that, after all, we were safe. Then her hand clutched mine firmly. A wolf had leaped from covert55 in the path of the file; loped eastward56 across the desert, and instantly, with a whoop57 that echoed upon us like the crack of doom58, a young fellow darted59 from the line in gay pursuit.
My Lady drew quick breath, with despairing exclamation60.
“That is cruel, cruel! They might have ridden past; but now—look!”
The stripling warrior48 (he appeared to be scarcely more than a boy) hammered in chase, stringing his bow and plucking arrow. The wolf cast eye over plunging61 shoulder, and lengthened62. Away they tore, while the file slackened, to watch. Our trail of flight bore right athwart the wolf’s projected route. There was just the remote chance that the lad would overrun it, in his eagerness; and for that intervening moment of grace we stared, fascinated, hand clasping hand.
In mid-career the boy had checked his pony64 so shortly that the four hoofs ploughed the sand. He wheeled on a pivot65 and rode back for a few yards, scanning the ground, letting the wolf go. The stillness that had settled while we gazed and the file of warriors, reining66, gazed, gripped and fairly hurt. I cursed the youth. Would to God he had stayed at home—God grant that mangy wolf died by trap or poison. Our one chance made the sport of an accidental view-halloo, when all the wide desert was open.
The youth had halted again, leaning from his saddle pad. He raised, he flung up glad hand and commenced to ride in circles, around and around and around. The band galloped67 to him.
“Yes, he has found it,” she said. “Now they will come.”
“What shall we do?” I asked her.
And she answered, releasing my hand.
“I don’t know. But we must wait. We can stand them off for a while, I suppose——”
“I’ll do my best, with the revolver,” I promised.
“Yes,” she murmured. “But after that——?”
I had no reply. This contingency—we two facing Indians—was outside my calculations.
The Indians had grouped; several had dismounted, peering closely at our trail, reading it, timing68 it, accurately69 estimating it. They had no difficulty, for the hoof22 prints were hardly dried of the fog moisture. The others sat idly, searching the horizons with their eyes, but at confident ease. In the wide expanse this rock fortress70 of ours seemed to me to summon imperatively71, challenging them. They surely must know. Yet there they delayed, torturing us, playing blind, emulating72 cat and mouse; but of course they were reasoning and making certain.
Now the dismounted warriors vaulted73 ahorse; at a 278gesture from the chief two men rode aside, farther to the east, seeking other sign. They found none, and to his shrill74 hail they returned.
There was another command. The company had strung bows, stripped their rifles of the buckskin sheaths, had dropped robe and blanket about their loins; they spread out to right and left in close skirmish order; they advanced three scouts75, one on the trail, one on either flank; and in a broadened front they followed with a discipline, an earnestness, a precision of purpose and a deadly anticipation76 that drowned every fleeting77 hope.
“Shall we make a break for it?” I proposed. “Ride and fight? We might reach the train, or a stage station. Quick!”
In my wild desire for action I half arose. Her hand restrained me.
“It would be madness, Mr. Beeson. We’d stand no show at all in the open; not on these poor mules.” She murmured to herself. “Yes, they’re Sioux. That’s not so bad. Were they Cheyennes—dog-soldiers—— Let me think. I must talk with them.”
“But they’re coming,” I rasped. “They’re getting in range. We’ve the gun, and twenty cartridges80. Maybe if I kill the chief——”
“You? How? Why? Can you persuade them? Would they let us go?”
“I’ll do what I can. I have a few words of Sioux; and there’s the sign language. See,” she said. “They’ve discovered our mules. They know we’re only two.”
The scouts on either flanks had galloped outward and onward83, in swift circle, peering at our defenses. Lying low they scoured84 at full speed; with mutual85 whoop they crisscrossed beyond and turned back for the main body halted two hundred yards out upon the flat plain.
There was a consultation86; on a sudden a great chorus of exultant87 cries rang, the force scattered88, shaking fists and weapons, preparing for a tentative charge; and ere I could stop her My Lady had sprung upright, to mount upon a rock and all in view to hold open hand above her head. The sunshine glinted upon her hair; a fugitive89 little breeze bound her shabby gown closer about her slim figure.
They had seen her instantly. Another chorus burst, this time in astonishment90; a dozen guns were leveled, covering her and our nest while every visage stared. But no shot belched91; thank God, no shot, with me powerless to prevent, just as I was powerless to intercept92 her. The chief rode forward, at a walk, his hand likewise lifted.“Keep down! Keep down, please,” she directed to me, while she stood motionless. “Let me try.”
The chief neared until we might see his every lineament—every item of his trappings, even to the black-tipped eagle feather erect93 at the part in his braids. And he rode carelessly, fearlessly, to halt within easy speaking distance; sat a moment, rifle across his leggined thighs and the folds of his scarlet blanket—a splendid man, naked from the waist up, his coppery chest pigment-daubed, his slender arms braceleted with metal, his eyes devouring94 her so covetously95 that I felt the gloating thoughts behind them.
He called inquiringly: a greeting and a demand in one, it sounded. She replied. And what they two said, in word and sign, I could not know, but all the time I held my revolver upon him, until to my relief he abruptly wheeled his horse and cantered back to his men, leaving me with wrist aching and heart pounding madly.
“It’s all right. I’m going, and so are you,” she said, with a faint smile, oddly subtle—a tremulous smile in a white face.
About her there was a mystery which alarmed me; made me sit up, chilled, to eye her and accuse.
“Where? We are free, you mean? What’s the bargain?”282
“I go to them. You go where you choose—to the stage road, of course. I have his promise.”
“You go to them? And then where?”
She answered calmly, flushing a little, smiling a little, her eyes sincere.
“It’s the best way and the only way. We shall neither of us be harmed, now. The chief will provide for me and you yourself are free. No, no,” she said, checking my first indignant cry. “Really I don’t mind. The Indians are about the only persons left to me. I’ll be safe with them.” She laughed rather sadly, but brightened. “I don’t know but that I prefer them to the whites. I told you I had no place. And this saves you also, you see. I got you into it—I’ve felt that you blamed me, almost hated me. Things have been breaking badly for me ever since we met again in Benton. So it’s up to me to make good. You can go home, and I shall not be unhappy, I think. Please believe that. The wife of a great chief is quite a personage—he won’t inquire into my past. But if we try to stay here you will certainly be killed, and I shall suffer, and we shall gain nothing. You must take my money. Please do. Then good-bye. I told him I would come out, under his promise.”
She and the rocks reeled together. That was my eyes, giddy with a rush of blood, surging and hot.
“Never, never, never!” I was shouting, ignoring her hand. How she had misjudged me! What a shame she had put upon me! I could not credit. “You shall not—I tell you, you sha’n’t. I won’t have it—it’s monstrous98, preposterous99. You sha’n’t go, I sha’n’t go. But wherever we go we’ll go together. We’ll stand them off. Then if they can take us, let ’em. You make a coward of me—a dastard100. You’ve no right to. I’d rather die.”
“Listen,” she chided, her hand grasping my sleeve. “They would take me anyway—don’t you see? After they had killed you. It would be the worse for both of us. What can you do, with one arm, and a revolver, and an unlucky woman? No, Mr. Beeson (she was firm and strangely formal); the cards are faced up. I have closed a good bargain for both of us. When you are out, you need say nothing. Perhaps some day I may be ransomed101, should I wish to be. But we can talk no further now. He is impatient. The money—you will need the money, and I shall not. Please turn your back and I’ll get at my belt. Why,” she laughed, “how well everything is coming. You are disposed of, I am disposed of——”
“Money!” I roared. “God in Heaven! You disposed of? I disposed of? And my honor, madam! What of that?”
“And what of mine, Mr. Beeson?” She stamped her foot, coloring. “Will you turn your back,or——? Oh, we’ve talked too long. But the belt you shall have. Here——” She fumbled102 within her gown. “And now, adios and good luck. You shall not despise me.”
The chief was advancing accompanied by a warrior. Behind him his men waited expectant, gathered as an ugly blotch103 upon the dun desert. Her honor? The word had double meaning. Should she sacrifice the one honor in this crude essay to maintain the other which she had not lost, to my now opened eyes? I could not deliver her tender body over to that painted swaggerer—any more than I could have delivered it over to Daniel himself. At last I knew, I knew. History had written me a fool, and a cad, but it should not write me a dastard. We were together, and together we should always be, come weal or woe104, life or death.
The money belt had been dropped at my feet. She had turned—I leaped before her, thrust her to rear, answered the hail of the pausing chief.
“No!” I squalled. And I added for emphasis: “You go to hell.”
He understood. The phrase might have been familiar English to him. I saw him stiffen105 in his saddle; he called loudly, and raised his rifle, threatening; with a gasp—a choked “Good-bye”—she darted by me, running on for the open and for him. She and he filled all my landscape. In a stark106 blinding rage of fear, chagrin107, rancorous jealousy108, I leveled revolver and pulled trigger, but not at her, though even that was not beyond me in the crisis.
The bullet thwacked smartly; the chief uttered a terrible cry, his rifle was tossed high, he bowed, swayed downward, his comrade grabbed him, and they were racing109 back closely side by side and she was running back to me and the warriors were shrieking110 and brandishing111 their weapons and bullets spatted112 the rocks—all this while yet my hand shook to the recoil113 of the revolver and the smoke was still wafting114 from the poised115 muzzle116.
What had I done? But done it was.
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consultation
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covetously
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dastard
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