Hosses couldn't be chased out of heah."
Slingerland's cabin consisted really of two adjoining cabins with a
door between, one part being larger and of later construction.
Evidently he used the older building as a storeroom for his pelts.
When all these had been removed the room was seen to be small, with
two windows, a table, and a few other crude articles of home-made
furniture. The men cleaned this room and laid down a carpet of deer
hides, fur side up. A bed was made of a huge roll of buffalo skins,
flattened and shaped, and covered with Indian blankets. When all
this had been accomplished the trapper removed his fur cap,
scratched his grizzled head, and appealed to Neale and King.
"I reckon you can fetch over some comfortable-like necessaries--
fixin's fer a girl," he suggested.
Red King laughed in his cool, easy, droll way. "Shore, we'll rustle
fer a lookin'-glass, an' hair-brush, an' such as girls hev to hev.
Our camp is full of them things."
But Neale did not see any humor in Slingerland's perplexity or in
the cowboy's facetiousness. It was the girl's serious condition that
worried him, not her future comfort.
"Run out thar!" called Slingerland, sharply.
Neale, who was the nearest to the door, bolted outside, to see the
girl sitting up, her hair disheveled, her manner wild in the
extreme.
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