The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 29, May 1893
The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 29, May 1893
An Illustrated Monthly
In The Shadow of the Sierras.The Royal Humane Society II.Shafts from an Eastern Quiver XI.--In Quest of the Lost GalleonZig-Zags at the Zoo: MarsupialPortraits of Celebrities at Different Times of their Lives.The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes XVIII.--The Adventure of the Musgrave RitualFrom Behind the Speaker's Chair V.At Dead of Night.Illustrated Interviews: XXII.--Sir Robert RawlinsonBeauties:—Children.The Adjutant's Love-story.The Queer Side of Things.
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n my pockets--and so I hired out to a farmer away in Pine Valley. We had words one day, and he refused to pay me my wages--so I took a horse out of his stables and rode off."
"It was madness, Oliver," she said; for she knew as well as he did that for the horse-stealer, in those parts and at that time, there was scant mercy and short shrift: it was danger to be accused, death to be detected.
"The horse was worth no more than my fair wages," he rejoined. "I was warned that they were after me, but I thought I'd got a good start of them. They were too sharp for me, though--they cut across by Devil's Ford, and were after me in full chase. They sent a hail of bullets after me; I sent all I had back--I winged one of them--I fancy he was the leader, and while they picked him up I got ahead; but, unluckily, before I was out of shot-range my horse was shot under me. I got clear of the saddle and bolted into the scrub. I gave them the slip for the time. I've been crawling like a dog through the chaparral--
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