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He stopped speaking, and glanced up inquiringly into the face of the

silenthiet this?"

"Cheyenne, sir"

"What! Do you h from there?"

"Silent Murphy carried it as far as the Powder River He went crazy

there, and I was coht it the rest of the

way"

"Where is Murphy?"

"Back with the pack-train, sir I got hione in the head"

"Run across ion?"

"They were thick this side the Rosebud; all bucks, and travelling

north"

"Sioux?"

"Mostly, sir, but I saw one band wearing Cheyenne war-bonnets"

A puzzled look slowly crept into the strong face of the abrupt

questioner, his stern, co

aze of the

other faltered, then canize you now," Custer said, quietly "Aain in the service?"

"My presence here is purely accidental, General Custer The