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"Kit! You here--why?" he demanded "I've not seed ye, Kit, sence the

last Rendyvous on the Green Ye've been with the Ar east now"

"Allus ridin' back and forerd acrost the hull country I'd hate to keep

ye in buckskin breeches, Kit But ye're carryin' news?"

"Yes," said Carson "Dispatches about new Army posts--to General Kearny

Some other word for him, and some papers to the Adjutant General of the

Army Besides, some letters from Lieutenant Beale in Mexico, about war

et all the

southern country to the Coast?"

"An' welcome ef we didn't! Not a beaver to the thousand oin' to settle in the Nez Percé country, whar there's

horses an' beaver"

"But wait a bit afore you an' its too busy talkin' Ye see, I'm with

Major Banion, yan, an' the Missoury train We're in camp ten mile below

We wouldn't mix with these people no ot so hi us in We wasn't sure how

friendly our friends is feelin' towards hirireeting, half terror Wingate turned in tiround in a sheer faint

Will Banion slipped from his saddle and hurried forward