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"And what is it you wish me to do?"

"Take care of Murphy Don't let him remain alone for a minute If he

has any return of reason, cohtened at your presence and knowledge as at mine

Besides, you have fully as much at stake as any one, for in no other

way can the existing barrier between Naida and yourself be broken down"

Insisting that now he felt perfectly fit for any service, the impatient

Hampton was quickly supplied with the necessary food and clothing,

while Murphy, grown violently abusive, was strapped on a litter between

two uard on either side Brant rode with the civilian on a

sharp trot as far as the head of the pack-train, endeavoring to the

very last to persuade the wearied man to relinquish this work to

another

"Foster," he said to the sergeant in command of the advance, "did you

chance to notice just what coulée Custer turned into when his coluht?"

"I think it must have been the second yonder, sir; where you see that

bunch of trees We was a long ways back, but I could see the boys

plain enough as they come out on the bluff up there Sooin' after them, sir?"