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of his insane co refreshed and renewed in both body

andwhen he first turned to look at him, but

he awoke in season to be fed, and accepted the proffered food with all

the apparent delight of a child While he rested, their re

pack-anio on with only

the two horses, strapping the depleted store of provisions behind his

own saddle Then he carefully hoisted Murphy into place and bound his

feet beneath the ani at hi periodic flashes of

nant passion Then he resumed the journey down one of those

sand-strewn depressions pointing toward the Rosebud, pressing the

refreshed ponies into a canter, confident now that their greatest

measure of safety lay in audacity

Apparently his faith in the total desertion of these "bad lands" by the

Indians was fully justified, for they continued steadilywith no evidence of life anywhere Still the travelling

was good, with here and there little strea

over the rocks Theythe bit of Murphy's horse, his anxious thought more upon his

helpless companion in misery than upon the possible perils of the route