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Nevertheless, this opinion did not deter him from climbing a tree where three bodies lay side by side in a curious fashion; but I had no more interest in ‘dead-trees,’ and fidgeted. Nimrod had wandered off some distance and was watching a gopher hole-up for the night. The place in the fading light was spooky, but it was of live Indians, not dead ones, that I was thinking.
There is a time for all things, and clearly this was the time to go back to Severin’s dollar-a-day Palace Hotel. I started for the bicycles when two black specks appeared on the horizon and grew rapidly larger. They could be nothing but two men on horseback approaching at a furious gallop. It was but yaller-covered-novel justice that they should be Indians.
“Quick, Burfield, get out of that tree on the other side!” It did not take a second for man and tree to be quit of each other, at the imminent risk of broken bones. I started again for the wheels.
“Stay where, you are,” said Burfield; “we could never get away on those things. If they are after us, we must bluff it out.”