Part 6 (1/2)
St Paul was reached in due season, and once more they started forth, this ti them on
”Tell me about this, will you!” remarked Jerry, after they had crossed the broad prairies and were clihts that lie like a barrier between the center of the continent and the Pacific Slope ”Howso filled onder and awe that'Ah!' so h now Once we get over this range there lies a long valley, and in that is where Martin Mabie has his ranch”
”Then we'll do our hunting along the sides of the ested Will, who had used up nearly half his supply of fils they saw on the trip
”That's my impression, froaht,”
remarked Jerry
”Well, he did say that they had been so busy of late on the ranch that no one had had tiame had not been bothered very ”
”H'm! I hope he won't be so rushed ork that he can't take the tio with us Half of the fun would be lost if Mr Mabie couldn't be along; for Jesse says he is the runted Bluff
”Oh, you forget that he said by the tiot there the ould slacken up, and he promised hi out in the wilderness, away frohed Frank
”That relieves etting tired of all this travel, that's what ails you,” said Jerry
”No; it isn't that,” remarked Frank ”Bluff has confessed tothat beautiful hunting-knife in the trunk along with his other traps; and if he left _that_ behind, half his pleasure would be lost Now you knohat's the matter”
”Not that I wish it to be so, but if such should prove to be the case, there'll be one delighted grizzly bear out in these sa with that big sticker,” remarked Jerry jocosely
But Bluff would not even s the hours until he could open that trunk and relieve his distressed mind
”Did you ever see a wilder bit of country?” said Frank, peering out into the gathering dusk, and trying to iine those wooded hillsides populated with elk and buffaloes, and all the big game of the past, when a white man was never knoest of the Great Lakes
”Well, to tell the truth, I was thinking of that account I read in the paper we bought, about the work of a sheriff's posse in this region, chasing the bad men who held up a railroad train not a hundred miles away from here It wouldn't be a pleasant experience for us to meet with, eh, fellows?” asked Will, as known to have a timid streak in his make-up
”Talk to h to freeze the marrow in one's bones There isn't one chance in a thousand that such an adventure will come our way, and he knows it”
”Goodness! What a jar! The engineerhurry! We're co can have happened? Are we going to have an accident, fellows?”
cried Will
Withof the wheels the heavy train ca with considerable apprehension, caught the sound of many loud and excited voices just outside the car
CHAPTER VI
AT THE VALLEY RANCH
”Listen!” exclai up his hand
”Talk to me about your Tower of Babel! It wasn't in the sa to talk all at once!” growled Jerry, starting up