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Aboutobscure, the rider ained heavily on thehimself down on some soft turf,

alht,

and, after a hasty ed considerably, beco cliffs and deep ravines Halasses, and, from the summit of every eminence, studied the

topography of the country lying beyond Heseen,

and he believed he could not now be many miles in the rear of Murphy

Late in the afternoon he reined up his horse and gazed forward into a

broad valley, bounded with precipitous bluffs The trail, now scarcely

perceptible, led directly doinding about like soe snake,

across the lower level, tohere a considerable stream of water

shone silvery in the sun, half concealed behind a fringe of s

Beyond doubt this was the Belle Fourche And yonder, close in against

those distant s, solued his

anxious eyes to the glass The levelled tubes clearly revealed aanother horse The ani There

could be little doubt that this was Silent Murphy

Hampton lariated his tired horses behind the bluff, and returned to the

sulass at his eyes

The distant figures passed slowly forward into the midst of the

s, and for half an hour the patient watcher scanned the surface

of the streae The