He'd just been down to the water-hole, and in the faint light he'd seen the Boy far down on the river-trail "leppin" like a hare in the direction of the Roosian mission.

Nobody else in sight but Yagorsha's daughter down at the water-hole.

Wherever the beast was, in a small water-hole kept opened by himself, or a larger one formed by the shifting floes, their success would depend on Barney's ability to keep the rope free from jagged edges which might cut it, and Bruce's skill at quickly getting in a fatal shot.

With a sigh of relief, Dave gave the order to rise at the first water-hole.

If the water-hole was narrow; if they missed it!

Sturt came at a period when the country lay faint under a prolonged drought and the rivers had dwindled down into dry channels, with here and there a parched and meagre water-hole.

He looked toward the water-hole significantly.

All the while he had kept watch on the water-hole, and he received Prather's announcement stoically as a confirmation of his suspicions.

When Jack looked away at the water-hole Prather's fingers slipped to his own six-shooter and rested there, twitching nervously; and in the rear Firio was watching both him and Nogales shrewdly.

"IIwas it Leddy that fired on us?" "Yes," said Jack over his shoulder, as he and Firio started up the bank of the arroyo facing the water-hole.

As Prather reached up a trembling hand to take his rifle from the back of his burro one of the lumps around the water-hole rose, possibly to change position.

Leddy could well afford to curb his impatience as he camped comfortably by the water-hole, while his own horses grazed.

"Why, if Firio and I are to have water to make coffee for breakfast we must take the water-hole!"

He gave the sliver of ear an affectionate corkscrew twist before he and Firio, taking all their ammunition, crawled along the bottom of the arroyo and up the ridge where they settled down comfortably behind a ledge commanding the water-hole at easy range.

Two of the outstretched figures were lying head to head a few yards apart on either side of the water-hole.

It was out of such fragments as this that John Wingfield, Sr. had to piece the story of the fight for the water-hole.

In the big darkness, before we crawl down to the water-hole, he call out to Leddy to make quits.

It lies three days from the nearest other water, and when Bwona Khubla had gone there three years ago, what with malaria with which he was shaking all over, and what with disgust at finding the water-hole dry, he had decided to die there, and in that part of the world such decisions are always fatal.

If the rurales were following, they would trail Dex to the water-hole.

" "Take him back to the water-hole.

Within the hour five rurales disembarked from a box-car and crossed to the water-hole, where one of them dismounted and searched for tracks.

But Waring, wise in his craft, knew that the man-hunters would search for tracks at every water-hole on the long northern trail.

Within a hundred yards of the water-hole the prisoner collapsed.

The man drank, and Lorry helped him up and across the sand to the rim of the water-hole.

He put High-Chin Bob out of business over by the water-hole yesterday.