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The ring ran closer The Sioux were inside seventy-five yards, the dust

streah,

red, saffron, yellow, as one after another warrior twanged a bow under

his horse's neck as he ran

But this was easy range for the steady rifles of men who kneeled and

fired with careful aim Even the six-shooters, then new to the Sioux,

could work Pony after pony fell, until the line showed gaps; whereas

now the wagon corral showed no gap at all, while through the wheels, and

over the tongue spaces, fro wall

came the fire of

Three ti passed, and that was all The third circuit was

wide and ragged The riders dared not coh to carry off

their dead and wounded Then the attack dwindled, the savages scattering

and breaking back to the cover of the stream

"Now, men, come on!" called out Banion "Ride the they'll remember! Come on, boys!"

Within a half hour fifty more Sioux were down, dead or very soon to die

Of the living not one reot hit!" exclaith

he rode back, four war bonnets across his saddle and scalps at his