CHAPTER XXIWell, the kid spotted that yell of Shorty’s, and he turned and tried to head back towards the house, but after he had gone half a dozen jumps through that pale, misty moonshine, he seen that he could never make the house, because Shorty was running wonderful fast, just throwing himself across the ground and seeming to touch it with his dangling hands, monkey-like.
Pepillo turned around and struck back through the trees towards the barns, where he’d been headed when I first seen him, but that false move and the change of direction, it lost him a terrible lot of ground and brought Shorty almost up to him.
They shot away, with the kid seeming to be almost in the hands of Shorty half a dozen times, but still he would dodge away around a tree and escape again. But just as they went
