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"Good , , sir You are Mr and Mrs Jesse Wingate, I believe Your

daughter yonder toldthe newcoloved hand "You're from the Liberty train?"

"Yes, sir My name is Banion--William Banion You may not know me My

family were Kentuckians before my father came out to Franklin I started

up in the law at old Liberty town yonder not so long ago, but I've been

away a great deal"

"The law, eh?" Jesse Wingate again looked disapproval of the young oing West?"

"Oh, yes, I am, if you please, sir I've done little else all o I marched with all the others, with Doniphan, for Mexico

Well, the war's over, and the treaty's likely signed I thought it high

ti trail's in ate nodded The young on What with new titles and the

like--and a lot of fighting ht to be as

to seek my fortune in the Far West It's too close and tame in here now

I'ly--"I'hbors, with a bunch of Illinois and