But Cairness had known it without that. It was so entirely in keeping with the rest of his fate, that every cup which ought to have been sweet should have been embittered like this.
TWO:The cow-boy broadened the issue. "You will, and you'll take off that plug, too, or I'll know what for."She sat for a moment without answering. It was less astonishment than that she did not understand. She knitted her brow in a puzzled frown.
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The boy explained that it was not that, and she let him go, in relief.They glanced sideways at the big Englishman, who appeared to be one of themselves, and at the little minister. On him, more especially on his hat, their eyes rested threateningly. They had heard of him before, most of them. They answered his genial greeting surlily, but he was quite unruffled. He beamed upon the room as he seated himself at one of the tables and ordered supper, for which, in obedience to a dirty sign upon the wall, he paid in advance."Barnwell tells me," he began, "that you have picked up a good deal of Apache.""I can shoot, myself, when it comes to that," suggested Stone.The night of their return to the post, Cairness, crossing the parade ground shortly before retreat, saw Felipa. He had been walking with his eyes on the earth, debating within himself the question of his future, whether he should re?nlist, succumb to the habit of the service, which is to ambition and endeavor what opium is to the system, or drop back into the yet more aimless life he had been leading five years before, when a fit of self-disgust had caused him to decide that he was good for nothing but a trooper, if even that.
