The Pacing: Mustang- 



The story was not quite so consecutive as 

 given here. It was much punctuated by present 

 engrossments, and from first to last was more or 

 less infiltrated through the necessaries of life, 

 for Bill was a healthy young man without a 

 trace of false shame. But the account was com- 

 plete and everyone believed it, for Billy was 

 known to be reliable. Of all those who heard, 

 old Turkeytrack talked the least and probablj 

 thought the most, for it gave him a new idea. 



During his after-dinner pipe he studied it out 

 and deciding that he could not go it alone, he 

 took Horseshoe Billy into his council and the 

 result was a partnership in a new venture to capt- 

 ure the Pacer; that is, the $5,000 that was now 

 said to be the offer for him safe in a box-car. 



Antelope Springs was still the usual watering- 

 place of the Pacer. The water being low left 

 a broad belt of dry black mud between the 

 sedge and the spring. At two places this belt 

 was broken by a well-marked trail made by the 

 animals coming to drink. Horses and wild 

 animals usually kept to these trails, though the 

 horned cattle had no hesitation in taking a 

 short cut through the sedge. 



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