Excerpt: ...of Pg 123 sugar, and there's two barrels of it here now. Oh, the villains." Vic stood out beyond the awning and watched the sun go down over the cloudlike tops of the western mountains. "What are you thinking of, Vic?" asked her mother, from under the awning. "Why, mother, Cal and father are somewhere away out there. They're pretty near the Sierra, maybe. I was wondering in what sort of a camp Cal had eaten his supper." Cal was not in any camp, and he had not eaten any supper. He did not ride Dick uselessly the ...
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Excerpt: ...of Pg 123 sugar, and there's two barrels of it here now. Oh, the villains." Vic stood out beyond the awning and watched the sun go down over the cloudlike tops of the western mountains. "What are you thinking of, Vic?" asked her mother, from under the awning. "Why, mother, Cal and father are somewhere away out there. They're pretty near the Sierra, maybe. I was wondering in what sort of a camp Cal had eaten his supper." Cal was not in any camp, and he had not eaten any supper. He did not ride Dick uselessly the remainder of that hot afternoon. At first he took long rests, and then he dismounted altogether and walked. The red mustang needed no leading, but seemed to feel better when his human company was close beside him, with a hand upon the bridle. He was evidently suffering from thirst rather than from fatigue, and so was his master. Every now and then any path they happened to be in led out into barren reaches of sand and gravel, on any side of which they were at liberty to choose among several avenues, and this was one of the treacherous puzzles of the chaparral. Cal did not know that the red men who had threaded that maze before him had left marks of their own upon the trunks of the mesquit scrubs. He could not have read, if he had known, for he was worse off than a foreigner in a strange, great city. Twice he saw a wolf go trotting across the vista ahead of him, and once a gang of antelopes dashed away as he came in sight. Somewhere in that Pg 124 terrible tangle there must be human beings, red and white, he knew, and he would almost have welcomed the sight of an Indian when he saw the sun go down. The moon did not rise, at once, and it was very dark and gloomy, as well as oppressively warm, in the chaparral. Heat came up from the sun-baked sand, and more heat seemed to creep out from among the bushes. It was a time for Cal to look away down inside of himself and to call out all the courage there was in him. "I can stand it another day, I...
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