Got up
from his camp stool leisurely, and with great composure told the man:
"Certainly, I will be very glad to have some one along who knows the
trail so well." To be told that he knew the trail must have been
disconcerting to the man, but not one word did he say in reference to
it.
After he had gone, Faye went over to the company, where he remained
some time, and I learned later that he had been giving the first
sergeant careful instructions for the next day. I could not sleep that
night because of horrible dreams - dreams of long, yellow snakes with
fiery eyes crawling through green grass. I have thought so many times
since of how perfectly maddening it must have been to those horse
thieves to have twenty-two nice fat mules and three horses brought
almost within the shadow of their very own stockade, and yet have it
so impossible to gather them in!
At the appointed time the buckskin-man appeared the following morning
on a beautiful chestnut horse with fancy bridle and Mexican saddle,
and with him came a friend, his "pal" he told Faye, who was much older
and was a sullen, villainous-looking man. Both were armed with rifles
and pistols, but there was nothing remarkable in that; in this country
it is a necessity.
