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"Our train come inter the Sater two days back o' you all," he said

"We seed you'd had a fight but had went on We knowed some was hurt,

fer we picked up some womern fixin's--tattin', hit were--with blood on

hit And we found buryin's, the dirt different color"

They told hiht, of their losses, of the wounded;

told hih out of courtesy to

Woodhull, who stood near, they said nothing of the interrupted wedding

The old al!" he said "Her shot by a sneakin' Rapa-hoe? Ain't that a

shaate, who stood ready noith bandages, told him how alike the

two arroounds had been

"Take an' chaw tobacker, ma'am," said he "Put a hunk on each side,

do-ee mind, an' she'll be well"

"Go on and tell us the rest," someone deentlemen," resumed the

scout "Ef ye'd sont back fer us we'd of jined ye, shore, but ye didn't

send"

"How could we send, ely "How could we knohere you were, or whether you'd come--or whether you'd have been of any