Whereupon the six jealous canines fell to fighting among themselves, and fought so savagely as to be deaf to our cries and insensible to blows.

They had to be torn apart and chained.
About six o'clock Lawson loped in with the horses.

Of course he did not know we had a cougar, and no one seemed interested enough to inform him.

Perhaps only Frank and I thought of it; but I saw a merry snap in Frank's eyes, and kept silent.

Kitty had hidden behind the pine tree.
Lawson, astride Jones' pack horse, a crochety animal, reined in just abreast of the tree, and leisurely threw his leg over the saddle.