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others are ahead, and Custer, with five troops, has es back of the bluff"

Thehis eyes

with his hand Before hi waves of

upland, a vast desert of burnt grass, shiive me a fresh horse, a bite to eat, and a cup of coffee,

down there?" he asked, anxiously "You see I 've got to go on"

"Go on? Good God! ? Why, you

can hardly sit the saddle! You carry despatches, you say? Well, there

are plenty of good men in my troop ill volunteer to take them on

You need rest"

"Not h, or shall be as soon as I

get food Good Lord, boy, I a way! It's

the cursed loneliness out yonder," he swept his hand toward the

horizon, "and the having to care for him, that has broken my heart He

went that way clear back on the Powder, and it's been a fight between

us ever since I 'll be all right now if you lads will only look after

hi back

his ragged coat, his hand on the despatch-bag "I 've earned the

right"