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Excerpt from Altowan or Incidents of Life and Adventure in the Rocky Mountains, Vol. 2 of 2
Ment trying to keep abreast in a race, with other little arts to attract attention, or try to claim a participation in their pursuits. One of these, whose eye the habit of savage watchfulness had taught to recur continually to the distant hori zon, grew intent on some dim object which ap peared emerging from the pines at the foot of a small valley, that ushered its tributary stream into the light a little below that by which Alto wan and Idalie had arrived. In an instant the looks of all were fixed in the same direction. It was a horseman descending at a rapid pace the steep, in a direction toward the camp. A dark pennon waved from his lance; and something in his appearance, though yet afar off; told that he was fresh from the field of strife. A bend of the stream Where it approaches the bluff some little distance higher, promised the best opportu nity of arresting his progress, to obtain the news; and the giddy throng, riding at all the grada tions of speed, made the valley echo with their shrill yells as they bounded toward the narrow pass. It was not difficult to stay the jaded steed, though the rider showed that he would willingly have disregarded the clamor, waving a scalp as a trophy and an answer to their demands; but the horse, to whom the heel and the whip were.
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