All present knew him to be the horse of Henry Poindexter.
The dark red spots on which they were distractedly gazing had spurted from the veins of Henry Poindexter.
He wouldn't go there," interposed Calhoun, who appeared as much mystified by the absence of Henry as was Poindexter himself.
The Indians were out, and near at hand, reaping their harvest of scalps! That of young Poindexter was the firstfruits of their sanguinary gleaning!
On reaching the outskirts of Poindexter's plantation, he left the low lands of the Leona bottom, and spurred his old mare 'gainst the steep slope ascending to the upper plain.
There were still further speculations, that related less to the apparition itself than to its connection with the other grand topic of the time--the murder of young Poindexter.
His eye only sought those of Henry Poindexter's horse. Though the others were of an after time, and often destroyed the traces he was most anxious to examine, he had no difficulty in identifying the latter.