Ken Campbell
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He knew enough about stout adobe walls of the corral on the Dry Fork, and of the grit of the few defenders to feel reasonably sure that with ammunition, provisions, and water in plenty, they could easily hold out a week if need be against a Sioux, so long as they fought on the defensive and the Indians were not strongly reinforced.
He reasoned that Straber and his people were probably gone to strengthen the attack, and that having an hour's start at least and riding faster, they would get there somewhat ahead of him.
But one of his own old sergeants, a veteran of twenty years in the cavalry, was now station master on the dry fork, and all the Sioux from the Platte to Paradise couldn't stampade old Jim Kelly.
Many a forced march had Ray made in the past, and well he knew that the surest way to bring his horses into action strong and sound at the finish was to move slow and steady at the start.
To move at the walk until the horses were calm and quiet was his rule.
Then on this bright September day would come the alternating trot and lope.
with brief halts to reset saddles, then later still the call upon his willing men and mounts for sustained effort, and by sunset he and they could count on riding in, triumphant to the rescue, even though Straber himself should seek to bar the way.
and that Straber meant to watch the road, if not to block it, became evident before the head of the column began the gradual ascent of Moccasin Ridge, from whose sharp crest the little band could take their last look for the time at the distant walls of Frayne,
Somewhere toward seven thirty, Corporal Connor's foremost man, followed on the left flank, riding suddenly over a low divide, caught sight of a bonneted warrior bending flat over his excited pony and lashing that nimble fleet footed creature to mad gallop in the effort to reach the cover of the projecting point of bluff across the shallow ravine that cut in toward the foothills.
Stone, the trooper, lifted his campaign hat on high once, and then lowered his arm to the horizontal, hat in hand pointing in the direction of the darting savage was seen, and this, without a syllable having been spoken at the front, word was passed into Ray that one Indian had been sighted far out to the northwest.
They may try to hold us among the brakes of the Mini Pusa, he said to his still unreconciled side.
And then we're not going to be able to do that.
Field had been civil, respectful, but utterly uncommunicative in his replies to the captain's repeated cordialities.
Any attempt to even remotely refer to the causes that led to his being ordered out with the detachment had been met with chilling silence.
Now, however, the foe had been seen and could be counted on to resist if his rallied force much exceeded that of the troop, or to annoy it by long ranges.
range fire, if too weak to risk other encounter.
The command halted one moment at the crest to take one long lingering look at the now far distant posts beyond the platte.
Then swinging again into the saddle, moving briskly down into the long, wide hollow between them and the next divide, well nigh three miles across as they reached the low ground and traversed its little draining gully, a muttered exclamation Look there from the lips of the first sergeant called their attention again to the
to the far left front.
Stone, the trooper who had encountered the first Indian, had turned his horse over to the second man, as had the corporal on that flank, and together they were crouching up along the eastward face of the billowing hillock, while straight to the front Sergeant Scott, obedient to the signal from his left hand man, was speeding diagonally along the rise to the north, for all three advanced troopers had halted,
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