Rocky Mountain Sam — page 160: what you’re looking at

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ROCKY MOUNTAIN SAM. eet at the gate of the corral, watching the command asit passed to the northward at a sharp trot, and amid clouds of dust. ‘here they go! Heaven bless them!” exclaimed Chap- man, fervently. ‘‘It’s almost sunset, but they will not rest this side of Cadott’s Pass.” In the meantime the aeronauts were hovering mountain- ward, and could already see the volcanic vapors of the Hermit’s canon sending up their sinuous columns against’ the sunset sky. In ‘a short time the balloon was safely landed and housed, Teddy working with such a will as to speedily dissipate the effects of the whisky ‘hat had muddled him. They found old Minnetrapa awaiting them in the cabin. She at first. appeared to be. much cut up by the news of Fayaway’s captivity, but quickly subsided into the calmness of Indian stoicism, and went on’ preparing the meal she had been engaged on when they entered as if nothing out of the way had happened. While the three men were eating, Teddy asked the pro- fessor for ‘‘a drap of the crather” to wash down his food. This demand was met with a keen rebuff, which so annoyed the Irishman that he retired to a remote corner, muttering a string of unintelligible brogue, in which ‘‘bad cess,” ‘‘bad luck,” and other choice epithets found an indistinct airing above his breath, and presently slunk off to bed. A storm was brewing without, and as Sam and Max sat there by the cheerful hearth with its vast heap of blazing logs, they could hear the blast, which gradually swelled from a low, hollow moan to ashrieking storm, that yelled around the cabin and. rushed roaring through the gorges and chasms, with a sound as of all pandemonium broken loose, mingled at last with the heavy crashes of thunder that seemed to shake the very mountains. to their eternal bases, and pretty soon there was added the sound of fierce and lashing rain. | The night was well advanced when Sam informed the professor that he would follow Teddy’s example; ‘‘for,” he added, ‘“‘we’ve got a big job before us in the morning.” He retired into the room where Teddy had disappeared, but a moment after was called back, half dressed by the splash and thud of a horse’s hoofs on the sodden turf outside of the door. The Hermit had heard it and was taking down his rifle, Comicboo cS (ele)