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out of my anatomy, there did n't see Murphy, for Slavin was dead I was n't exactly sure he

was the owner of that scar, but I hadstruck his trail, I reached Cheyenne just about

four hours after he left there with these despatches for the Big Horn

I caught up with the fellow on the south bank of the Belle Fourche, and

being well aware that no threats or gun play would ever force hihten hi-paper and drew your father's picture in phosphorus,

and gave hiht,

and everything was coreed to come in here with me, and tell the whole story, but the poor

fellow's brain could n't stand the strain of the scare I had given hi mad on the Powder; he jumped on me while I was asleep,

and since then every mile has been a little hell That's the whole of

it to date"

They were up with the pack-train by now, and the cavalry thenize

Murphy, and crowded about his horse with rough expressions of syrave eyes on Hampton's stern face