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He swept his heavy eyes across the brown and desolate prairie, and back

to the troubled face of the younger man "You see, Brant, I feel that

I sih I have a pride in

giving theetting them here But perhaps I may not co to tell her the truth That thought

has bothered me ever since I pulled out of Cheyenne It seeht so I 've seen a lot of Indians riding north within the last four

days, and they were all bucks, rigged out in war toggery, Sioux and

Cheyennes Ever since we crossed the Fourche those fellows have been

in evidence, and it's ht at this minute, than he has any conception of So I want

to leave these private papers with you until I come back It will

relieve my mind to know they are safe; if I don't come, then I want you

to open theirl

You will do that, won't you?"

He handed over a long er

that it was unaddressed before depositing it

safely in an inner pocket of his fatigue jacket

"Certainly, Ha to tell you now regarding Murphy There is

no useto explain exactly how I chanced to find out all