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There lacked the one leader, cool, cale did not lack Yet even the best courage suffers when a roans of his wife As the

hours passed, with no more than an occasional rifle shot or the zhut! of

an arrow ending its high arc, the tension on the nerves of the

beleaguered began to an to cry for water They were appeased with

ht that last, with

the cattle the to moan and low?

"How far are they back?"

It was Hall, leader of the Ohio wagons But none could tell hiate alone knehy Banion had not

advanced He doubted if he would come now

"And this all was over the quarrel between two ate

"The other ate "He was

court-ed from the Army He was

under Colonel Doniphan, and had control of subsistence in upper Mexico

for soular He

ran his regiht order first this officer, then

that, of the line or staff, to take on his free-for-all quartermaster

trains But he was honest Banion was not He had hies were filed by Captain Woodhull Well, is it any wonder there is

no love lost? And is it any wonder I wouldn't train up with a thief, or