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CHAPTER 1
STORY OF A VENDETTA. -

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“Buffalo Bill has either got to die by my hand, or he
will kill me. I feel it in my bones, Hal.” |

“Don’t be a fool, Willis, to buck against that man, Buf-

falo Bill. Why, you are but a boy!”
“A boy, yes, in the eyes of the law; yet a man in stature,

in feeling, in heart and hatred.”

The speakers were Hal Halpine. cand. Willis Wynkoop,
two boys living at a newly-established Village known as

the’Wynkoop Settlement, situated near Fort Fe etterman,
one of the Western frontier military posts.

Wynkoop was the son of Major Wynkoop, who had led
the party of settlers from Kansas who founded the com-
munity, and Hal Halpine was his cousin. |

Near the Wynkoop Settlement, on. the other side of

Fort Fetterman, was the settlement of the Duncan family

and their friends, also Kansas people.

Both had come West to break up the feud between the
two families, and by chance they had chosen spots for
their settlements near to each other.

 

“T was born to avenge wrong or die, and leave others
to avenge me,’ added Wynkoop. :

“What has nate Bill got to do with our vendetta,
begun a couple of generations ago, and now transplanted
out here to this new country where we have made our
homes?

“Again I say, Willis Wankoes. don’t be a fool and
bring Buffalo Bill into the quarrel of the W oe a

‘Duncans, or he will dig your grave for you, sure.”

“T did not bring him into it.
and must take the consequences.”

“Or, you must!”

“Ves, one of us must go under.”

“Tn the name of common sense, how did he chip in,
Willis ?”’

“Tl quickly tell you.

“Ned Duncan, the slayer of my brother Ralph, back in
Kansas, as you know, and I met by merest chance one —
Sunday while our emigrant train and his Were on ae :
march ,ottt here. 2

“That betrayed to each of us the ee nee either.

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of the vendetta between us, Nad recently pulled up stakes
in Kansas and started for the wild West. oe
“That was a remarkable coincidence, I admit, and that

our trains should have camped within a dozen miles of -
each other out here, in this mugen and now be settled |

a little over a hundred miles apart.”

“But, outside of you and myself of our party, and Ned»

‘Duncan of his party, nobody knows the fact, so we need
never meet, and thus the vendetta will die out.”

“Not if I have my way, Hal Halpine; but listen to my
story; , ae

“Tm listening.”

“Well, a meeting between Ned Duncan and myself
could mean but one thing——a fight to the death.

“We arranged for a duel, and lo! up rides Buffalo
Bill, and he would not have it.

“Ned Duncan demanded that we should neither D us
speak a word to betray the presence of our people so
near each other, and Buffalo Bill forced me to agree to it.”

“How could he force you?”

“Never mind how, but he did.”

“You remember it was the same day that my sister
Hilda rode away from camp, got lost, and came in at

night with her horse badly hurt by a mountain lion ae

ing upon him?”
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“Well, she also met Ned Duncan, curse him! and he

‘shot the lion, or Hilda would have been killed ah it. oe

“Thank God!” ;

“T would rather she had been killed than owe her life
to the slayer of our brother !”

“Willis Wynkoop, that is unworthy of you, of any one.
N ed Duncan, as his people before him have been, is the
foe of the Wynkoops and their following; he did. kill
your brother Ralph; but give the devil his due, for he
acted only in self-defense, when Ralph attacked him; that
you know. Ned is said to be a noble young ve and
has a fine record.”

.“Gurse his record! . hat is it. to me?
es got to answer to me.’

I tell you he

“You are getting a pretty large contract on yourshands,
Willis, and our Boy Regulators of Wynkoop. Settlement
will have to advise their captain to go slow in this matter.”

“T shall need no advice; but as you heard and saw. what
passed a while since, I wish to put you straight in the mat-
ter

“Go ahead.”

“Obeying Ned Duncan, Hilda did Abt tell the secret of
the Duncans being: near, while I. also was silent on the
subject. ee a

“Buffalo Bill went on to Gur cainp with me, » that day,

you remember, denounced our. guide, Scott Jerome, as a
renegade traitor, leading us into a trap and a

 

“Wohich he was, and but for Buffalo Bill eviding us,

and. then going to the fort for aid, the renegade: would
have entrap{ oe us with those Indians he had lying in
ambush for us,’
“Well, I know all about bak but as Scott Jerome, was
killed in the fight that followed, that ends him. Buffalo

Bill guided us to where we are now located, and a*beauti-
ful valley it is, too; but he told Ned Duncan, when he

heard the story of our feud, o have his guide take them
to a certain point far from us.’

“While-you scouted around until you found ie, ee then
got me to come with you to lie in wait for Ned Duncan,
whom you had discovered went gold hunting, and——’

“Yes, and when we had him - our mercy, Buffalo Bill
again chips in and thwarts me.’

_ “And glad I am that he did, for I’ 11 tell you now, Willis,
I was wrong to be led by you into this ugly business, and

 

am ashamed that the ae scout oy me tes under-

hand work.
“T have the same pridgel or family enmity,. against
Ned Duncan that you have; but he is a manly fellow,

faced us both unflinchingly when we held him up, and

but for the scout we would have killed him.

“T am heartily glad we did not, and I shall return. to.

our valley and keep the secret from our people that the
Duncans are settled out West here; also, this vendetta
should end, as your father and all others in your family
are anxious that it should.” )

“Yes, and they agree to a cowardly back- down, oa y
GOO.)

“T warn you iL Buffalo Bill i taken sides now, and
does not wish the two settlements to meet, as he has been
told. the story of the feud, and I tell you, he will watch
you mighty close, so beware!”

“And I tell you, Hal Halpine, that this eed shall not

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fiercely at his comrade, also a youth, as the two rode side

by side over a boundless plain in the then almost pathless |

wild West...

CHAPTER II.

THE SCOUT AND HIS Oe PARD.

Two horsemen had sat quietly i in their saddles, as. ihe
two youths, whose conversation has just been made.

known, rode away from the spot which had. very nearly
proved fatal to one of the four, if not more. ~
One of the two now mentioned was a man of striking
appearance in face, form and general make-up. His hair
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equipped. Altogether, man and beast were superbly typi-

cal of the far frontier.

‘The man was Buffalo Bill—W. F. Cody—at the Oe i
write a chief of scouts at Fort Fetterman, for he had
lately come to that post from Fort Fairview.

His companion was a youth of eighteen, good-looking,
and promising to be very handsome in face and form
when he had fully crossed the threshold of manhood.

Already his’ countenance was stamped with decision
and courage beyond his years, and his eyes had in them
the expression of a strong, -yet noble nature.

He was dressed in a suit of jeans, top boots, slouch hat,
was well armed, and sat on his horse as one perfectly at
home in the saddle.

This youth was Ned Duncan, son of the leader of the
Valley Farms Settlement, as it was named.

Young as he was he had been made to know that the
bitter feud between the Duncan-Wynkoop factions might
demand his life at any time. _ :

It had already been demanded, but a Wynkoop had been
the one to pay the penalty of his attack upon the boy.

“Willis Wynkoop and Hal Halpine, whom our first chap-
ter has made known to the reader, had ridden on and dis-
appeared in the distance; then the youth turned to Buffalo

Bill, thanked him for coming up just at the moment of

greatest need, and feelingly assured the fort scout that he
would not forset that again he had saved his life. .

“Each time that mad Wynkoop boy would have ‘slain
you, that is true; and I warn you, Ned, to keep an eye
upon him, should he ever cross your oy Bey ’ said
Buffalo Bill.

“I do not believe he will again try it.”

“Don’t trust him. He is as reven geful as an Indian

and as merciless as a snake, SO vee him !? was the

scout’s earnest warning.

Accepting the youth’ s invitation to return, with him to

‘the new settlement of Valley Farms, the two rode along

over the plains, talking of. the ambush into which Ned
Duncan had ridden, and how it happened that the scout
had arrived upon the scene.
“That can now be explained,’ answered Buffalo Bill.

“I was out on a scout, and stopped in at the Wynkoop
Settlement to warn them that the redskins were in an ugly
mood. It was then that the majors pretty daughter in-
formed me that-her brother Willis had. organized:a band of
the youths of the settlement, who had named themselves

the Boy Regulators, and that Willis was making a num-

ber of suspicious journeys — or with but one e comrade,
in this direction.

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Knowing her brother, as she thoroughly does, she be-

lieved him to: be : Pigtins, for the secret came out that the

two settlements were near each other, comparatively, and
thus bring on a collision.

“That was enough. I at once took his trail, saw thet
he had a comrade with him, and was on the field soon
alter they were, so went: into hiding to see what they
were after.”

Yess and so saved me,

“I confess that I was surprised to see young Halpine
with him, for I liked him the little I had seen of him.”

“Yes; and in Kansas I always heard Hal Halpine
spoken well of; but, then; he was only to aid in me 2 a
Duncan, you tinge and anything is fair in love and war,
was the somewhat bitter reply.

But Buffalo Bill did not appear to hear him. He had
halted, and was looking earnestly at the ground, theré
cut up by a ay ira |

Presently he said

| Ehat ridge, ade hid us, ‘or these red scavengers
would have seen us, while we could os have discover ed

them i in this, timber where they were.’ i

“Tt is a fresh trail, sure enough, * said Ned.
“Yes, and made by half a hundred of the red imps, at.
least.
“There is. one American horse’s. tracks S, iron-shod,
among those of the ge Powis, and. they passed here
not over half an hour ago.”
“Where ‘can they be going ?”
“Only one. way in this direction.”
“Where is that, Mr. Cody?”
“To scout about the Wynkoop Settlement,
here ae ejaculated the scout. .
i Mes) sit, :
‘This. trail cuts off nee and if they reach th ie -Red
Pass. before young Wynkoop and his pass they are :
doomed.” ;
“Oh, can. we not save them¢ ?” cried Ned ene
he scott was silent for a moment, the youth watching '
him attentively.

But, see

Presently Cody answered:

“The boys went to the right of the Moleanns mountains,
while these Indians are on a direct trail to: of Pass; and™
will get there. first. Be,

“There is a narrow cut through the Volcano Tange,

which we can make for, and by hard riding # will bring ee
us out at' the Red Pass before either the two 0 boys or oo he

Indians get there.” > ve nt
“Let us.save them, then.’ .

“We can but try, young pard!” was Buffalo Bill s char-
acteristic answer, and atte another close observation of
the trail, the government scout. ‘turned. his horse, and,
with Ned Duncan by his side, started on the hard tide to
the rescue of Ned’s most malignant: enemy.

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THE RIDE TO THE RESCUE.

Buffalo Bill knew the wild country he was in as no

other did.

He had scouted there for years, Gated hostile ‘Indians
and renegade rovers, and, although he had been stationed
at. various other frontier posts recently, he still knew

‘just where he could cut off miles of riding-on the way to —

get to Red Pass before either the Indians or the two
youths could do so.

“We'll have to put our horses ia to it, young pard,

~ for if the redskins get there first they will not go through

without. reconnoitering, SO. Ae discover those; two boys
and lay for them. . ore

“If we get there first, with the aid of the two boys we:

can keep them out of the pass, and their force is too small

to allow them to remain and fight it out, ea there are

other bands within call.”
“And if there are, Mr. Cody?” asked Ned Duncan.

“YOu will have to ride.to your settlement with all haste
_ andhave them ready for an attack, then push on to Fort
Fetterman and have the commandant send troops directly

here, ‘where I will. remain rand keep my a Hoge the In- »
dians?” ;

“T am under your orders, sir.’

“The other two must put away with all speed for the;

Wynkoop Settlement and give the alarm? so that;’after all,
what was intended as a bad piece of work—this attempt

to murder you—may save the settlements from bone sur-

prised, and get the redskins a severe whipping.”

“T hope so, sir,” and Ned Duncan pressed on hard after

the scout, who was keeping up a very lively Pace.

From. his discovery. of the two trains of emigrants
coming into that country, through coming upon Ned Dun-

ean and Willis Wynkoop, who had accidentally met and
were to fight a duel, in which the latter was showing him-

self: most treacherous, Buffalo Bill had been deeply in-

When a mere youth himself he had felt of the Wyn-
koop-Duncan vendetta, ‘and he was surprised to find each
party, at the same time, and the movements of one un-

__ known to the other, seeking homes i in the wild W est.

It was through Buffalo Bill that they had been promptly
turned aside from the trail they were following, and so

were prevented from meeting, thus avoiding . a deadly. con- |

flict.
Denouncing Scott Jerome, the guide of aie “Wynkoop
party, he had saved-the. wagon train from being led into

_ an ambush, and later on, had brought to their aid a force
of soldiers from the fort, who had whipped off the red-_

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emigrant train, they had met Major W ynkoop and his

people, who were in great danger of being overwhelmed.

The scout had also visited Valley Farms once, the set-

‘tlement of the Duncans, and he was glad to know that the

secret had been kept so well that neither party knew of
the existence of their foes so near them save the two
youths, the young girl Hilda Wynkoop, and, later, Hal
Halpine was in possession of the fact, as had been seen.
Now, led by Buffalo Bill, Ned Duncan was riding to

the rescue of the very two youths who, but. for the com-

ing of the scout, would have murdered him.

. “I hope that, as you saved’Miss Hilda Wynkoop from

the mountain lion, and now save those two foolish young

fellows, Willis Wynkoop and Hal Halpine, if the secret
does become known that your respective people are settled

within a hundred miles of each other, it will do much to

bury the hatchet and end this feud,” said Buffalo Bill,
“as the trail permitted Ned Duncan to ride by his side.

a vee it may, only you will be the one to save them

now.

“No? you are with me, and that fool Willis oA.

must ae to. feel i it, —o drop: this Paseo to
kill you.” Be .
“Fie never will, I am sure.’

“hen, if. (eters any a done, you must a ity

for you will have to deal with him as with a ‘snake.
nT have not forgotten’ that he tried’ to lall me when |

‘was going with him to his camp, when my horse: slipped

down the divide with'me, and that you saved me, Ned,

from having suspected tr eachery of ea and followed.”
““T knew him,”

“Well, if he does’ not behave himself now,’ Vl tell his

father how he tried to shoot you by treachery in your
intended duel with him, how he acted toward me, and also

of his trick to murder you to-day with Halpine’s aid.
“T tell you, that boy must be squelched, or nothing on

earth can ptevent the feud from breaking” out again be-
_tween. your people and the. Wynkoops.”

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VA feel that, Dut Willis Wynkoop will never be in-

fluenced for good, and he is determined to kil me, ‘Tam |

sure.

“Should he do so, I leave it to you, Mr. Cody. 6 hed
the whole story of his cuilt, and thus try to end the feud
through the’ sense of justice of the Wynkoops.”

_ “I will do 50, if you go under; but that shall not be if I

can help it.

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“Ves, Sit. ie .
AOA Red:Pass is there; ae bee dre cliffs are

red, and also because there: ee been : sev oe ees mas-

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A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION,

“Great, ‘Scott,’ Hal, look yonder!” ¢

The words broke from the lips of Willis Wynkoop
as he and Hal Halpine were riding side by side toward
the break in a loity range of scarlet cliffs known as Red
Pass.

They were less than a mile from the pass, and saw. dash
out of a heavy belt of timber running along at the foot of
“the cliffs two horsemen, riding at full speed for the open-

ing in the range, and from which they were less than a
third of a mile off.

“Tt is Buffalo Bill!”

“Ves, Hal, and that cur Ned Duncan is on the other
side of him, trying to hide himself.”

“I see him now; but they are riding at full speed.”

oe head us off at the pass through which we have

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“But for what pubes Willis ?”

- “IT suppose Ned Duncan is afraid I will kill him soine
day, and - has gotten the scout to hold us up and have
it out now.’ ’

“T don’t think that; but how did they, get ahead of us?”

“Oh, that devilish scout knows. the country as the
Indians do, and just knew the trail to take to cut us off.

“They intended to assassinate us, but did not reach
the Dass in time to me sO we are on even terms with
them.”

“Willis Waaien, you are a fool.”

“Thanks ;
please,” sneered Willis Wynkoop.

“In the first place, if you had your whole band of Boy

Regulators along, and Buffalo Bill was alone, we Ww ould |

not be on even terms, for he’d down Us, Stire,”
“T see who the fool is.”
“T have not finished yet.”

-“Go es for I wish to get ready to: meet those as-

sassins.’
“There, you are one the same epithet.

“But, let me tell you that you know Ned Duncan is

above ‘such an act, and Buffalo Bill’s record i is too noble

a one for you to accuse him of such a crime.’
“You think so?”

-“T know it, and more, because we were aulley, and oe :
shame I admit it, of having attempted to assassinate. Ned

Duncan.
crimes,”

We have no right to suspect others ot our

but explain the compliment you pay me, ue

to hear a word 1 in their praise.

“Why are they going at full speed for that pass, then?”
“TI do not know; but we will’ soon know.” ‘
“When we find them trapping us.”

“Tl take all risks and go ahead.”

“They can have no other motive but to kill us.’

‘Wait and see.” |

“When too late.’

“See, they are waving to us’; or, at least, the scout is.’

“You can answer, for*l won't.”

Hal Halpine answered the waving of fhe scout’s som-
brero by taking his hat from his head and:doing likewise.

The scout and Ned Duncan were now at the pass, and

there the latter halted, while the former disappeared by .

ee into the opening in the range.

“That coward cur has ee to wait for us,” growled

Willis Wynkoop.

“He does not show much of. the coward by waiting to
meet two whom he has had every proof are his worst
foes.”

“Say, Halpine, you ouehe. to go oyer to. the: Duncan
clan, you admire that cub. so.’

“Willis Wynkoop, don’t turn me in you o in-
sults, for you well know that the Wynkoop- -Duncan feud
was begun by your family, and that the first to aid you
were those of my name.

“You know, too, that the Halpines fae suffered more
by death losses than any other of the clan; but I can be
just, even to a foe, though I was a fool to be led away
by you in what we tried to do to-day.

“No, oe do not wish to turn my friendship from } you,
Wynkoop.”

Hal Halpine spoke rah a depth of sincerity that could
not but impress his desperate young comrade, for the lat-

‘ter quickly held out his hand, and said:

“Tam a fool, Hal, for I should not have said what I did |

“to you, for the Halpines have been the ones to suffer the
‘ most, I admit, in this vendetta: ok

oe But | hate every drop of Duncan blood, and I Boe
tolerate seeing one of the gang _ unless it is to kill them, or

“To me they are all a bad lot, worthy only of the ‘gal-
lows.” .
“Don’t say that, Willis, for you know that, had your

brother Ralph killed Ned Duncan, the feeling in Kansas
was stich that he would have been hanged for its

“The law- -abiding people there were tiring of the ven-
detta, and, when there was a meeting held of those not in-

terested i in either clan, the fault was placed more me ‘the

Wynkoops than upon the Duncans.”
“Don’t talk to me of such stuff.
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“Well, we must make the best of a bad situation.”
“That fellow. is awaiting us, ae the scout is doubtless
in hiding to protect him. oe
“Tf there is any ane you do it, for my. gun shall
‘alone speak for me.’

“And somebody else’s gun may’ pee to you if you.
don’t be more careful,” and, withthe words, the two rode

up to within fifty feet of where Ned Duncan stood by the
side of his panting horse, calmly awaiting their approach,
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Ned Duncan had his eye ‘upon, the two youths, as le

rode toward him, but he showed no. sign « of expecting hos.”

tility from them, nor of making any. attempt to face them
with other than peaceable intentions.
The scout had disappeared on thr ough the pass, which

at that point was. very narrow, and further on had. an ab-

rupt turn in it,
Around this’ turn had Buffalo Bill gone,

“Well, Duncan, how came you: to head us off ” che

out Hal Halpine, as Ned Duncan, remained silent.
“Soon after you deft us, Mr. Cody. saw-a fresh Indian
trail, and, discovering the direction it took, he knew that
they were coming to this pass.”
“Ah! And where are they : >

“Nowhere; it’s all a big bluff,” ce said Willis Tike in

a hateful way:
Paying no attention to the Test Tone Ned Danen
continued, in his quiet way:

“The trail. they are on: cin oe th be and “Mr.
Cody has Bans through. the. pass: to see if ches are in

sight 3¢??

“He'll Hor find ea for ladon. are, eee in as coun-

try,:and, if there are many of hen, he would. not wish to
head.them pi. :. ; ee oes
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Hai Halpine turned ee Willis s Wynkoop, gud aa
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“Mr. Cody knew,” resumed ‘Ned ce Sele: un?
moved by the insulting words of his. foé, “that the Indians
would reach this pass before-you did, unless you. rode yery
_ fast, and, discovering your coming, would ambush you, to
either fire upon: you or capture you. .
“For this reason.we came to put you on your puard. :
“And I appreciate it, Ned Duncan, so here is my hand

upon it,” and Hal Halpine held out, his hand, which. Ned

Duncan, after a slight hesitation, ¢ grasped. |

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“You are a fool, Hal Halpine, to:surrender to the
enemy, and believe all this a which is merely to oy
favor with us for some reason.’ 2
Ned Duncan fixed his eyes upon the youth in a way

that made his face flush, yet he did not. speak, and just 4

then the clatter of hoofs was heard, and Buffalo, Bill

dashed around the bend.

“Come! We have got to meet them at the othier end of
the pass.
“They are still a nile ae he cried. fae ee
The three youths rode forward to join the scout, Ned
Duncan in advance, and the other two talking earnestly
together, in a low tone.
Having called the youths, Baffale Bill turned ane rode

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-Aiter a ride-of half a. mile, Hse scout halted Se there

“was another bend, and just there the pass widened and a
spring of water was on ‘one side and a grass plot.

“Stake your horses there, lads, but do not take off their
saddles or bridles, for we may have to get out of this in a
hurry,” said Buffalo Bill, who had not even looked at Wil-
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The boys did as told, and then the scout called to them >

to come and join him.

“You Halpine, go with Duncan, ae i wil take you

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oe by divide sor” aid Wynkoop# angrily.

“Because | want you under my eye.”

od will go with my own pard.”

“Look out, Hal! There is some: ee in this to os
us?” cried Willis Wynkoop. © ro ae

With a leap like a she Buffalo Bill + ‘was in erent: of
the youth, his iron grip was upon his throat, and the words

Tang with a terrible earnestness, as he said:

“Vou do'as' I tell. you, or V’ll bind and gag “you, soy!
a ll stand no more nonsense from you!” :

Willis Wynkoop’ felt that iron grip upon fim, saw the
fire im the scout’s eye, and was cowed. a oo

Turning to Halpine, the scout said:

“There are half a hundred Indians not half a mile away :

from here, entering this pass.

“We can check these tedskins here, for « on each side of
this pass you see good positions for,’ us'to fight them from,

‘and all of us have repeating rifles.

“Had we not come here to save you, then you would

have ridden into a trap.

: “Now, to your posts, and - fet 1 me say, Halpine, that. 1
have confidence in you, while I’ll see to it that this, young

fellow obeys me, and, does not get a Chance to. shoot me in

the backy”

All saw Shae the scout was s thoroughly. pad now,

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“Take that nose ‘sir,’ and Buffalo Bill addressed
Willis Wynkoop, while he pointed to.a rock below him
half a dozen feet, and as far in advance.

_ Across the pass a hundred feet were Ned Duncan and

_ Halpine, also in good positions, and looking up the narrow

ravine they could all four see out of the pass upon the
plain beyond. | ; :

And there, just coming into view, were the Indians,
half a hundred i in number, and with a chief mounted upon
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CHAPTER VI. 7s
AT BAY IN THE PASS:

“That chief on the gray horse,is the renegade, Scott
Jerome. He was once a guide and scout in my command.

“Look at him through my glass,” and Buffalo Bill
handed his fieldglass to Willis Wynkoop, wile he called
out across the pass:

_“Remember, do not fire until I give he word, and do
not kill or wound the chief on the gray horse.”

“Ay, ay, sir,” called out Ned Duncan.

“Be particular about this, for that renege must ie
_ to be taken alive some day.”

“These redskihs are out as an. advance party, and hey
are intending to make a raid upon your ae or or they
would not be down this far.

“We will fire on them, beat them back, then mount your

horses, you and your friend, and ride back through the -

‘pass; then bear to the left along the range, and; after
twenty miles, you will come to where there is a canyon
leading trouser :

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“Go through the range then, and keep your horses at it
for your settlement, and give them the. alarm.”

“T understand.”

- “T shall send Ned Duncan to warn his people, and to.

the fort for soldiers, while I watch the Indians, and try to
keep them here as long as I can.”? __ -

“I will do as you. say, though it ‘goes aoe me, I
frankly admit, to obey orders from you.” Bar
_. “No doubt,” dryly answered Buffalo Bill, ae

| “But, let me tell you that you had better let my pard,
aloe: warn our people, and send me on to the fort for
troops, for I know the trail, as that fellow Dunean will not
get there.”

“I am of the same opinion; if I was s fool etoueh to do
‘as you ask, for you would es and kill him before he
got a mile.”
~ Willis Wynkoop bit his lips, but replied:

~ here you go; give a dog a bad name, and sO. it ds}
; but T had no such thought.”

“Then my eyes lie to me in reading your face} and, let

me tell you now, they have been mighty true to me in the
pest always knewing one of your kind at first sight.
“No; you go to your settlement with ee friend, and
Ill take care of the rest. ;
“Now, be ready; and don’t kill that white aie to save

him from the gallows, for, if the redskins capture you

some day, he may be in saving you from torture
and death.”

Buffalo Bill’ S eyes were upon the face of the boy as he
spoke, and he noted the change in it.

What he saw convinced him that he had Thesdea 4 to
kill the traitor guide, thus preventing the scout from carry-

ing out his intentions some day of hanging him; but the

suggestion that if he, Willis Wynkoop, was captured some
day, he might find the renegade in the Indian camp of
service to him, at once checked his former intention.

Buffalo Bill realized that, if the renegade chief fell, Wil-
lis Wynkoop would not be the one to kill him.

With his glass at his eye, Buffalo Bill had turned it full
upon the chief, and each moment convinced him that he
had made no mistake, that it was none other than Scott
Jerome, the traitor guide.

The Indians were coming along at a slow | pace, the

chief well in advance of his ‘braves.

They were not riding in their usual style of single file,
but by threes and fours, and their whole apveataaee | indi-

cated their belief that no danger was near.

By entering the pass there as they did, the scout read
that their plans were to get into the basin, or valley, be-
yond, and there go into hiding until the other bands gath-
ered there for their intended attacks upon the two settle-

‘ments.

In that basin, or ae they would find the fiieet grass
and water for their horses, and could rest for a. couple of
days, while the fact that, if their trails were seen, being
divided into a number of small bands, ee would be
looked upon as a smail hunting party.

“Now, be ready. ot

“My shot will be the signal, and you aim at those four
some ranks back, for Ned and ou friend will doubtless

fire at those in- front.”

“Ned? You are getting awful thick with Dancer, ain't
your” inquired Willis Wynkoop.

“Yes,” and, as Buffalo Bill uttered the word, his rifle
went up to his shoulder; the muzzle peered through the
pine ‘bushes on the rocks, and then came the sharp ring
as his hand touched trigger.

A warrior back in the column dropped dead ie
saddle, but, as he fell, the other rifles flashed out their

first shots.

iE hey were all well aimed: and, fortunately, nota shot
was thrown oe no two drawing ipa ‘on the same

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The ‘Indians were Sorted terribly, and Sorplcicly. sur-
prised, but the four repeating rifles then began to rattle,
and the leaden hail fell into their midst. rapidly, dropping
ponies and riders, and wounding others. |

A minute after the firing of | Buffalo’ Bill’s A shot,
the red horsemen were surging back upon each other, and
then, in sudden panic, stampeded, their white chief in vain
trying to rally them to charge on. around the bend and
sweep the pass of their foes, for the scout heard him tell
them, in their own tongue, that there were not more than
a dozen palefaces there, and doubtless those were only a
hunting party from one of the settlements.

But-the Indians quickly fled out of range, for, all told,
they had not half a score of rifles, and the rattle of the
repeaters , made them believe they, were outnumbered
largely.

CHADTER VII.
A-TOUGH CUSTOMER.

It was Ned Duncan’s first real Indian battle, though he
had been in skirmishes in Kansas on several occasions
when pursuing the redskin raiders.

He saw that the scout had known what he was about,
though facing half a hundred braves with four whites, |
_ Then, within easy range, lay half a dozen dead redskins,
as many dead and wounded ponies, and several braves
' were on foot retreating down the pass, evidently wounded
or hurt by the fall of their ponies, while the white, chiet
and the rest were racing out of range.

“Well, that went great!’ cried Hal ee enthusias-
tically.

“Tt did, indeed ; but the scout is calling,” was Ned Dun-
can’s reply. :

“We have given them a check, and it will be some time
before they decide what to do, so you and your pard start
for the settlement now,” said Buffalo Bill.-

“And you?” impertinently asked the youth. ’

“Tl attend to my own actions, sir; and do you go to
your father, and tell him what has occurred; only remem-
ber, if you dare to mention the presence, of Ned Duncan
here, I will drive you out of this country!’ and Buffalo
Bill then called to Hal Halpine to come over and join
him, but for Ned Duncan to remain where he ae and
keep his eye down the pass on the Indians,

Then he resumed, addressing the youth, whom he no we
began to hate most cordially : ‘

“Tell your father I will have a force Fo n the fort after
these redskins very soon, but to be ready. with his men to
lend a hand, if he is needed, and he may be, as I have an

idea that there are a large number of warriors now on te

march here. oe Loe
“Do you understand ?” ’ y ae.

‘bit,’ and t!

aa Mea ee

“Then mount your fone oe be: ‘of, tor fee is your
poe and just then Hal Halpine joined them.

“Addressing the latter, Buffalo Bill. said: zg 2

| ce ere, Halpine,. if you have any rega d for Gis
ugly-hearted friend of yours, keep him out of mischief,
for, if he attempts to harm Ned Dunean ‘by Hey: I
shall see to it that his minutes are: quickly numbered. a
“Tl vouch for him, Mr. Cody, never fear.

   

“But I wish to thank you for saving my life, as you:

certainly did do, and tell you franl.v how ashamed a am
of my treatment of Ned Duncan. ae
“You'll never catch me in any eed work : again,
Sit. ! : oe ;
“T believe you, for on are a matily fellow, Halpine.
“But now be off for your settlement, and I'll report to
you what I told Wynkoop, as I do not trust him a little
he scout told Hal Halpine just what he had said
to Willis Wynkoop, and added: —
“ind you must ride hard, for you are well mounted,
and your i a fresh.”
“We will L, sir

“I hope there will be no halting in the pass to await’

Ned Duncan’s coming along for WwW Noe to get a 1c at
him from an ambush.”
“No, no, Mr. Cody, he goes with me, and 1 assure you,

I would ‘not be guilty of a

“T.do not fear you, but W. ynkoop, for he is as venomous
as a snake,’ and the scout’s eye was flashing as he turned
it upon the youth he ee and was sure he read
aright. Ba ae

“Some day it will be for me to get revenge on you,
Buffalo Bill,” hissed Willis Wynkoop.

“No threats, sir, but be offi!”

Hal Halpine sprang for his horse, took up the 7
and was in his saddle with a bound.

Willis Wynkoop was very lace in his actions, ‘and
only mounted aiter a delay of several minutes.
He seemed anxious to provoke the scout.

_ As he was delaying so long, Buffalo, Bill a ‘out
sharply : . ee

 

on you delay an instant longer, T shall keep’ you. here
with me and send you to the fort!’

This hastened the evil- natured ey and calling out to
Hal ‘Halpine the scout continued :

“Tf he delays you, Halpine, leave a te Tl iow

if he does fiot arrive with you, _and send a file of SOEs

after him, for patience is ceasing to be a virtue: with me.’

. Willis Wynkoop was thoroughly alarmed ‘now, and ‘

eed out : .

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of his way of thinking—at least, I shall make that charge

against you to the colonel.”

But Willis Wynkoop hardly heard ee last words, as he
went off at a gallop, Hal Halpine after him.
_ Watching them for a minute, Bu ffalo Bill called out:

“ay, ace mS

Mees, Sir

“Keep your eye on the reds: and, if they attempt to
come, empty your rifle into their midst, only don’t hit the
renegade; and then come down and mount your horse,
‘leading mine. :

“T am going to walk up the pass, as I wish to make a
discovery.”

“All right, sir,” called out. Ned Duncan, cheerily.

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CHAPTER VEL
‘THE YOUNG AVENGERS THREAT.

“Come on, Willis; what are you stopping for here?”

Hal Halpine asked the question when the two had got-
ten half a mile from the bend where they had left Pakale
Bill and his boy pard, Ned. :

it was at another bend in the pass, and fhe cliff tow-
ered very high over them, while there were bowlders scat-
tered all about.

“This is the very place, Hal,” said Witt W ge.

Hor what?’

“For what L intend to de.’
_ “What is that 2” : rs -

me intend to halt here, dismount, and we'll go into hid-
ing.” ,
upon a long trail to warn our people of danger ?”

_ “That's all right.” :

“Tt is not all right, for delay may ruin all.”

“Bah! There are only a few Indians about, wed four of
us id them, so I’ve lost my seare of redskins.’

“T have not; and, had it not been the scout, we would
have gone under, and: he whipped ‘the Indians. back by
knowing: just na ie do ik?

“I don’t say so.’ a
“But come, let us get rey ‘for them.”
“For whom?”
“Well, first we'll pick off Ned Duncan, for 5 you see we

are around the bend here, and he will ride right upon us,,

and, if he is alone, I’ll take him; but, if the scout is with
him, Pll send a bullet into ae Hone and you can draw
a bead on Ned. oe

Hal Halpine. looked at the youth ‘before him in blank
amazement. :

He did not speak or surprise, and only when Willis
Wynkoop laughed rudely, and asked:

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“Are you going to join me?”

“Never!

“Do you think I would-be guilty of sich a dastardly act
as that you suggest?”

“Wherein is it dastardly ?”

“Do we not owe our lives to the scout?’ And what has
Ned Duncan’ done, though our foe, but came to our aid

_ when he knew we were in danger.

“Both he and the scout risked their lives for us.”

“They had some other motive.”

“I do not believe it.”

“Well, I have vowed to kill that Duncan cub, and I shall
wait here and give him a shot, for he is going to warn his
people; or, that is, the scout said he was.”

“And you intend to again play the assassin?”

“T intend to avenge yal poor brother, Ralph, whose ve
ee Duncan wiped out.”

“Willis Wynkoop, | am ashamed of you!”

“Because I am doing what I deem my duty?”

“Because you are going to do the most cowardly act of
your life, that is, if I allow you to do so.”

“You allow me to-do so 2”

“That is what I said.”

“Now, what you got to do with it?”

“Much, for I we prevent at.

“How can you?’

“T will ey. ride back and inform he scout of your
intention.”

Vou will chs.

ves.

“Either I will do that, or I will remain here, and put
Ned Duncan on his guard.”

“Wal Halpine, we have always been the best of friends;
but, if you attempt to turn against me now, I shall kill.
your). «

“Tt is a game that two can play at, when it comes to
that, Willis Wynkoop,”

“And one be successful in.”

“It is true that you are stronger than I, a better shot,
and, as all believe, the best man, young as you are, in our
settlement ; but I do not fear you at any time, and es-
pecially when you are mile to play the part of a cow-
ard,

“For shame, Willis, to-act as you Mave!

“Be a man, arid let your better Hoare rule you, not the
devil that now seems to govern you.”
Hal Halpine spoke earnestly, and in a manly way.
He sat upon his horse, while Willis Wynkoop had dis-
mounted, and the two were not ten feet apart.
Thus far neither had made any move toward drawing a

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moved around, as though by accident, until he had gotten
the animal between himself and Hal Halpine. -

He had a good position in case of trouble cance vee i.

_ for his horse was a protection to him.

They were just around the’ bend of the pass, atl not
fifteen feet from where they could look up the way they

had come and see the appieaen of a Dae oo several

hundred yards.

As though to win his case without trouble, Willis 0
koop said : a

“See here, Hal, that scout is ‘other to us, and we both

cordially hate Ned Duncan, and you. know He is onthe

death list of the W ynkoops.
“Come, let us wipe both out, and then tell our people

“the Duncans are here near us, have cao us ons to keep

up. the vendetta.
- “What do you say?’

“T say that it is an infamous tie, aud a proposition that:

is unworthy of any one but a coward!
“I am_not of ar kind, thank Heaven, Ong ts Wyn-

eats? Y

“Come, Pll have no more’ oi this, for 1 go back . put:

the scout and Ned Duncan on their guard against an as-

sassin,’
“Hold!

“T don’t wish to kill you, but, I shall mark y you for life.

for those words, Hal Halpine!

“Took out for your left ear!” and the rifle of Willis

_ Wynkoop was suddenly thrust over his saddle and pointed

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But he had not Dap ue cunning on. ae part ae ;

directly toward the head of Hal, who was caught com-
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CHAPTER IX,
BRANDED FOR. LIFE,

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Hal Halpine was.no coward, and he did not show fright

at the bare threat of W illis Wynkoop to put a life mark
upon him.

From earliest boyhood, he had been’ ee the influence
of Willis Wynkoop, and had followed the latter’s lead
blindly, greatly to his own detriment.

At times he had rebelled, but Willis Wynkoop had :

forced him back into line again.

Thus had he been led into going Well him to attack Ned :

Dunca. as he had done.
Now he was a a Woe against ae young master’ S
will.

the chain of evil. .
It was the wall of Buffalo Bill,
It was the incentive to. exert his manhood, not to A. led,

But a more pewertul | influence was Lae hin iS break

Pp

Willis Wynkoop to get the advantage while = was a talk’ :

ing. to him,

_ But the latter had quietly done : o and had fm at his

mercy. im
And; more, he coolly ‘threatened to brand him by” send-

ing a bullet through his left ear.

‘Hal Halpine dared not move.
He knew that the young deadshot sould do wens he

threatened; but half an inch out of line, and the bullet
_ might cut through his head. 7

If he attempted to draw a weapon, Willis Wy kop
might fire quickly, and with bad aim.

So, like a statue, sat Hal Halpine tipon his horse, Gieine
a dread ordeal of being killed or marked for life,

Wickedly did Willis Wynkoop pire into his face, and

he said, in his sneering way:
“Yes, Hal, you must be put down a peg” ‘or two.
“Vou are getting too cheeky of late, I have Hoticed.

_. “Twill simply cut a hole in that left ear of yours, and ic
antl teach you not to attempt to thwart me.

“You can tell the people an Indian bullet cut the fae.
see?
warning that I must not be disobeyed.

_ “Now, hold your head steady, for I do not wish to miisa.

Vous pot do I desire to kill you.
“Say when you are ready, Hal!”
“Tam ready now?” es
The deep voice fell upon the ears of the vg » boys, with
startling’ effect. bie aa
To one it was the sei of help ¢. ey
To the other it came like a death-knell. apne
‘Hal ‘Halpine siinply raised his eyes, and beheld, stand-

a age

a ing just at the bend in the cliff, fifteen ee away, the a "

form of Buffalo Bill.

; ‘The scout had his revolver oe and it- covered Wil

lis Wynkoop. a 1 Sok Meg
The latter had his back to the scout, antl was not. eight

' feet from him, :

His rifle was across his saddle, and pointed toward Hal
Halpine. ee :
His revolvers were in his belt...

He had been taken in thes rear, and was wholly at the

mercy of the scout.

At the words that fell like a | choi upon. him, wits |

Wynkoop had-glanced over. his shoulder.

He saw the scout now, and his sneer left his. ace, on

became as pallid as a corpse, and his lips trembled. -
He seemed to realize that the scout would not tbe merci-
ful this time. pone ee
“Lam ready now, | said, young man, and I wish you to

know that I suspected you of tr cachery, so’ was. paver se
- trail the moment you left. - te ae ie ns
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the oe Iwas here almost as soon as yee were, so I
have heard all. é

“I don’t. like playing the cavesdroppers Dut a wished to
know just what you are.

“It was shown me that this young man is a noble fel
low, only he has been under a very. evil influence—your
OWL, : es eS

“You have delayed here, while the lives of all in your
settlement are at stake, and I shall not allow you to escape

without a lesson this time. :

“Do you understand ?”

The scout had spoken ina: low, cea tone, ‘and both.

youths had heard all that he had to say.

As Willis Wynkoop made no reply, Buffalo: Bill con-
tinued :

“You understand well, oa I Le to tell you. again, tho
I intend to give you.a reminder. of having met me, and
that I shall be upon your track. often.

“T eould take you to the fort, report just what you ave
done, and the colonel would. make short work of you.

“But, for your father’s sake, and sou mother. and s
ter’s sake, I will not do that.

“T shall only brand you, as. you intended to mark your
friend, for life, because you could not mec an assassin
out of him. © ‘
- “You. shall wear my mark, sir.

“Stand steady, for it will be a narrow margin between
wearing a,hole in your ear and being killed.

“You can tell your people you got it in the Indian fight,
you know, just as you advised your ae to-do.

(Steady, now aes

The revolver cracked, (ere was a 1 aflld yell from the
lips of . Willis Wynkoop, and, ‘dropping. his rifle, he
grasped his ear, from which the blood was streaming.

“You have torn my ear off!

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CHAPTER 3.
HAL FLALPINE’S RESOLVE,

Stepping up to the wounded youth, Buffalo Bill, un-—

heeding his threat, simply took “his hands from his ear,
and said: ee
“Your ear is not torn off, sir. .
“T do not bungle my work, as you will discover.

“See, Halpine, is this not a clean cut hole right through

the upper’ part of the ear? ? os 2% a
SiS sire tees ‘
" Ieawasca remarkable shot.”

“Tt was a damnable act, and one Til memeniber!”

growled Willis Wynkoop. * «0 0)”
enaat was what you intended fo do oS ‘your: Eichd, ae
we are not friends, you know.” ae 2

tery.

: “Your work might have killed him... - i
“But.I wish you to remember it, and it a sche. you’
that I will stand no-more bane with ee :
“Let me dress it for you.” .-
“Never! I-would die first?’ ea
“It is not dangerous, and just as you please as 5 to having
me dress the wound. s S 4
“Now, do you promise to go on wit ‘dns young man,
or shall I take you to the fort with me?”
“T will go to my home.”
“Then, do.so; and no time is-to be lost.
“Come, be off, for, I tell you ay : am in no humor.
to stand any nonsense with you.’

This fact was patent,, especially to Willis oie
and, still holding his handkerchief to his. ear, Ae mounted

his horse and dashed away.

“Watch him as you would a snake, Pard ane and, if
he gets too bad for you, come:after me, and 1’l] tame him,
or he’ll do mischief, for heis a bad one Spe ee

“Good-by, and don’t spare-your: horses.’

With this, the scout turned back up et pass, as though
he gave Willis» Wynkoop no: further thought, while Hal
Halpine dashed on after -his companion. —

Willis Wynkoop rode rapidly, and never drew rein for
several miles, then halting at a mountain brook.

Hal was close behind him; and dismounted as his com-

rade did.

Bathing the wounded ear,’ Willis s Wynkoop called out:
— Hal, is my ear torn otf me
NG 2

“It. feels so.’

“There is a clean- cut hole through it; that is all.

“It has stopped bleeding, and will be all right.”

“Only the pete of Buffalo Bill will be there, for it wili
never close up.” . i

“No; there will bee a ioe there.”

“And Buffalo Bill made. it?

Ves.

“Do you think I am.one to forgive rats

“T know that you, are not.

“You oF got a little o your | own eden Willis

Wiss. a

’ the ae were larned upon you, for I would fae
fared worse at your hand.” ~

Willis Wynkoop regarded his companion laa

He seemed to read him through and through.

What he read was that he was no longer under vie mas-

The charm was broken, and Hal Halpine was no longer
under his influence.
Whatever the motive that aiomnted Willis Wynkoop to

/ dO: SO; "he suddenly held forth his hand, and said, in a °

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“Yes, Hal, I got some of my own medicine, and I de;
served it.

“I wish you to forgive and forget, and we ‘N quarrel no

more,

“This is a bullet wound through my ear, “gotten at the
pass where we fought the Indians, you know.”

“T understand, Willis. ae

“T am no telltale.”

“TL know. that.

“But, now, dress the wound for me, and then we'll push

on rapidly, and give the warning to our people, though,

really, I do not believe there i is any danger.”

“Buffalo Bill is not « one to > hake a ‘Teport that i is false,
Willis,’

“T see that you are dead gone on the fellow, Hal, so I'll
say no more; but I intend to turn scout myself, and you'll
find that we boys can peer good service, But we must
ride at a good jump now,’ :

Hal Halpine was only too anxious to do the latter, and
they kept the pace up at a rapid canter.

Night came on, but Willis Wynkoop ay the trails
strangely well, and the pace was not slackened, save for a
halt before sundown for a short rest and supper.

Again they renewed their way, and Willis Wynkoop Des a

came very talkative.
His manner: ‘convinced Hal lee that he had really

repented, or had made up his mind to play some deep

game,
He was not one to repent snddenly of his evil dee and
Hal Halpine was assured that he did not intend to lose
his prestige with the boys and settlers; but was sure he
was playing a part for some deep purpose known only to
himself, or really sorry for what he had done.

“The scout said beware of him, -and I'll watch him,” he
said, and it was a wise resolve, as will be seen.

 

CHAPTER XI.
a PRISONER.

When Buffalo Bill saw the two youths ride’ away, he

continued on at a rapid walk through the pass.

He did not appear to dread any further trouble from the

ugly nature of Willis Wynkoop, at least not then.

He found Ned. Duncan on duty, and, Aes the scout.

coming, the youth called out:

_ “They are moving up again, ah in ls fore, aid

slowly.”

Nes: they. have an an Ma we were but few, and ran

On after that first Gite :
“We will fool them, Pard Ned.’ y

Ned Duncan was more than willing to. be governed j in
everything by the scout, so he simply pr eparéd for action. .

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“Then make every shot tell on a brave, not a pony, for
dismounted they may dash for the bend here, and reach it,
““&s soon as we have checked them, we will run to our.

horses, mount, and ride for it.
“T shall get the animals ready.”
This the scout did, and then took up position: for a

fight.
He saw only a score sf the braves in mel and these |
were straggling along, their eyes fixed upon the rocks

from whence the fatal fire had come before.
They reached the spot where lay their dead comrades

ae the ponies that had fallen, halted a moment, and one
_young brave, in obedience to an order from the renegade
chief, advanced, alone and on foot.

He walked boldly and with the air‘of one who was glad
to show his courage and defiance of danger.
_ He passed all the dead»braves, got within a short dis-
tance of the rocks, and turned and looked back. .
Buffalo Bill saw his intention, and quickly ee down

toa spot near which he must pass.

The scout had his lariat 1 in his hand,

Nearer came the brave; the others rested upon. ee

ponies, all of four hundred yards distant.

He reached the first of the bowlders, pressed cautiously ~~~.

ahead, turned and waved his hand at the others, and then
stepped around the bend out of sight.
As he did so, there came a swish; a noose settled over
his head, and he was dragged backward, and fell heavily.
Ere he could ‘utter a cry, the hand of the scout was
upon his throat, a gag was thrust into his mouth, and tied
there, and his hands were bound securely.
Then Buffalo Bill carried him to his horse, placed him
behind his saddle, and made him fast there. :
“They are coming, sir!”

The warning came from Ned, for the Indians, ‘seeing ‘
that their comrade had given no alarm, considered the way A

clear, and rode forward once more.

“Wait until I fire, and then’ drop their ponies, for then.

they cannot pursue us.
“Tf they push ahead on foot, pick them off,” ‘said the
scout, and a cheery reply was returned.

lead.
“Don’t a the chief, Ned! ee
“Ny O, sir.’ ;
“Tt is a shame to shoot the ponies, but it must e done?
oN Gay Sit” ae
“T'll drop the ehief’s horse with my first shot, :

owen will you fire?’ whispered Ned.

“Not until they reach that pine.” —

It was allowing them to come very close, Ned Duncan Y

_ thought, but he had perfect confidence in the scout, and .
made no comment. :

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Nearer and nearer came the Indians, until, halting, the
chief gave a call.

It was a signal to the brave who had. gone ahead.

It fell upon his ears, yet he could return no o reply, g give
no warning.

Buffalo Bill did so for him, for he called back a re-
sponse in the Indian tongue of only a shout and a word.

At once the chief rode forward, his warriors following.

They seemed to feel that the way was clear. |

‘But just as the renegade leader reached the. pine ‘tree the
scout had elected as the deadline, there was a puff of

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smoke, a sharp report, and the large horse of the chief

dropped in his tracks, his rider being thrown heavily.
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«Several of the warriors rushed bravely . to their chief,
whose leg was pinned beneath his horse, and rescued him,
while all then made a dash back down the pass.

The chief was, evidently, a little hurt by his fall, for he
was put’upon a pony, the others Tunning by the side of the

animal.

Down the pass they fled, until they felt that they were
out of range of the deadly rifles, and little dreaming that
their two daring foes: were tetreating also.

“T shall leave him, bound and gagged, here for them

to find.

- They will not come soon. again, and. dae is what L

want,” said the Selita

So he took the Indian prisoner from his horse, bound ©

him to a simall tree, and then, mounting, he rode up the
pass, Ned Duncan by his side.

“Now, Ned, push for your settlement, “and give the
alarm, and then mount a fresh horse and ride hard for
Fetterman, telling the colonel all. that 1. have explained to
you,” said Buffalo Bul. oS

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NED’S NIGHT RIDE.

Ned Duncan’s horse was a ‘good one, and comparatively
fresh, so he went swiftly along on his way.

The youth followed the directions. given him by Buffalo

Bill to cut off distance wherever he could, and, when night
fell, he had gone over thirty of the fifty miles he had to
ride fo the Valley Farms settlement.

He had come also to the part of the. country which he

knew pretty thoroughly, so the darkness did not check his

speed, and he kept his horse up to the same killing pace.
He knew, as he neared the valley, that his horse was

failing him, but still he urged him on, and two hours after

nightfall the animal staggered up to the comfortablé-cabin

home of Dr. Duncan, ine father, who was the on ch
cian in the neighborhood.

“Ah, Ned, we were getting anxious about you, my son;
but your horse is dead beat—anything wrong?” said Dr.
Duncan, a fine-looking man of fifty, greeting Ned, as he
slipped from his saddle.

“Yes, father, 1 met Buffalo: Bill, and the Indians : are
moving at Red Pass in large force.

“We had two fights with them there, and checked their
advance, and I want Phantom, your best horse, to ride
right ¢ on to Fort Fetterman for help. :

“There were two others with us, and Mr. Cody sent
them to warn another settlement, and he wishes you to get

~ your whole force under arms, and have guards out to pre-
tled rapidly, and down went Indian ponies and’a brave or

vent Ssurpr ise.

“Will you. please have Pitahton Growehe up for me, sir,
while mother gives me some supper?”
“Do you expect -to go to Fort ae my
son?”
“Yes, sir; it is only sixty railes?
“But you donot know the trail, and——“
“I know forty miles of the trail, and Buffalo Bill te
rected me how to go from there.

“I must have the cavalry on the march fer the Red Pass
before dawn, sir, and the distance there from: the fort is
nearly seventy miles, the scout says,”

“Where is Buffalo Bill >”
“He remained to watch the Indians, and so be able to

-- advise the officer in’ command ‘of the ue upon his ar-
‘rival as to their numbers and movements.”

“Good! | .

“Ill have Phantom Brose for you at once, my son;
and do you eat a good ee But T I wish aN would
take some one with you.’ ee i

“Ahy no, sir, for you may need every man bare:

“All right. Tl give the oe ae place the men at
onge on evard.”’

‘Mrs. Duncan gave Ned a good supper as soon as he had
freshened himself up with a bath and a change of clothing,

and Phantom, a beautiful roan, was ready. for him when

he came out of the cabin to start upon his long, hard ride.

The alarm signal had been. given, and the men of the
settlement were all gathering at the Duncan cabin, where
the doctor, who was also called “‘Captain,” as the head of
the settlers, was to tell them of the news brought by’ Ned,
and the precautions to be taken against a surprise.

All who had assembled gave a rousing cheer to Ned
Duncan, as the brave boy dashed away upon his night ride
for help, and the rapid clatter of ‘Phantom’ s hoofs showed
that the animal was going to be put ‘to it hard to reach

‘the fort 4 in the shortest time possible,

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but beyond that fe had to Zo ae directions he had received
from the scout. o

But he had listened atieatively to all Porcine. and
‘Phantom’ kept up his long, swinging, untiring lope in the
same way aiter he passed the: tet point known to i
rider from actual observation. ae

The scout had directed him well, and, in spite of the
darkness, the youth was only at a loss several times to
find his way, and a halt of a few minutes of thought soon
set him right again. a

It was yet an hour before dawn when the lights of the
fort loomed up before the brave boy, and it was hard for
him to resist a wild yell at his triumph.’

But-he checked this boyish desire to give vent to his joy,
and dashed on until halted by the sentinel.

He was soon in charge of the corporal of the euard, and
a few minutes after the officer of the day was listening to
his story.

Deciding that, as the news came from Buffalo Bill, it
was urgent, as the chief of scouts was known well to be
no alarmist, the officer said? ;

“Come with me, my lad, and I will take yout to Colonel
Carrol.” :

Ned gave a glance A Ha who, with low-hung
head, was panting like a hard-run hound, and said: © |

“He brought me, sir, in great time. Gan he be cared
for right away?’
“ox es, indeed.

“That is right; never ae your horse, for it shows
' ayour heart is in the right place,” and, calling to a soldier,
he gave him orders to see that the horse had every atten-
tion.

Colonel Carrol, who was in command of the garrison at
Fort Fetterman, and every inch a soldier, arose quickly at
the call of his or derly, and, in dressing-eown and slippers,
received Ned Duncan. 2

“You were right to call me, Captain } aby nard.

“Now, my brave boy, tell me your whole story.”

Ned told the story, as far as he deemed it necessary.

Of the Valley Farms Settlement, the colonel, of course,
knew, so Ned simply said he belonged there, that he had
met the scout, who had tracked'the ee of Indians to Red

Pass, and found they were under the vege of the

renegade, Scott Jerome.

“We'll hang him some day, ae Cody will not let him
escape him,” said the colonel; and he added:

“But they may break in upon the settlement a hundred
miles to the westward, for the renegade Ge those peo-
ple to their new homes.”

“Yes, sir; but we met two men from there, and Chiet

_ Cody sent them off to warn their people.” es ;

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guard, and the troopers, we can catch the Indians ina trap
through your plucky ride hereto warn me, my boy.
“Now, get what rest you'can, and Pll have three hun-
dred men in the saddle and a coupleof light guns to pull
out on the march within a couple of hours. , 43

“You'll find a lounge in ee next room, so throw your-
self down upon it for a nap.”

-Ned-was terribly tired, his mission had been accom- _

plished, and in five minutes he was sleeping soundly.

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CHAPTER XIIL
THE TR ACER: OR At By we

‘Now, Major Brown, start at once, and do not Spare

men or horses; push for Red Pass, and Chief of Scouts

Cody will head you off somewhere in that neighborhood,
so that brave boy gave me to under stand. e

The words sounded far away as s they came to Ned Dun-
can’s ears.

He lay upon the lounge i in a deep sleep, but the voice of
the colonel partly aroused him.

He heard the reply of the officer to whom the colonel

had spoken, Major Brown, the second in command; then’. ”
the clanking of sabers, the jingle of spurs, and he sprang .

to his feet, and appear ed in, ‘the ees with a startled look,
while he etied:

“Oh, sir, do not let then go inet me!

. The colonel lau ghed at his earnestness, and replied:

“T thought sleep would do you more good, after what
I know you had passed through; ‘but you can have break-
fast with me, and then follow and catch up, if you wish.”

“Thank you, sir; and Mr. Cody told me I could leave

my horse, and take one 2 of his, an animal he called —

bow.”
“Yes; Pil have your bridle and saddle put upon him.
ee sulle my breakfast is ready, and I wish to talk

ote you,’

The orderly was told to have Rainbow at the door
within half an hour; and, greatly refreshed by his two

hours’ nap, Ned enjoyed his breakfast greatly, and lost his ©
awe of the commandant of a fort, whom he had regarded

as being of a very high order of the human kind..
“Introduce yourself to Major Brown, and tell him I told

you to give him all the information you could as to the

Indians, and just where to find Buffalo Bill.

“The major is a hard rider, and he will reach the basin.

by midnight,” said the colonel, and the shook Ned’s hand
warmly, as he turned to go.

- Rainbow was a splendid- lectins shal, and Ned Feit”

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- gallop, Ned came in sight of: them pelore oy had gotten
a dozen miles from the fort.

- The major was true to his becord as a ae rider, for he
was keeping the command up to a steady trot. |

As Ned came up to the column, he could not but feel

the martial spirit of the scene—a cavalry battalion upon

the march. ,

There were three hundred cavalrymen, two light guns,
six-pounders, with their caissons; fifty pack-animals, and a
half dozen ambulances drawn by four fine mules each.

The rattle of the sabers; ring of spurs, hdof-falls of the
horses, and silence of the men, deeply impressed Ned Dun-
can, and the feeling of awe had crept over him again when
he rode to. the front and joined the major.

_ That officer received him pleasantly, and said:

“T wished to have a talk with you, Duncan, but the
colonel told me you were so dead beat he would not allow
oe to be disturbed.” —

“He was very kind, sir.’

“He said you had ne some two hundred miles {1
about thirty hours, and had two brushes with the red-
skins as well.”

“Yessir: but I could uot remain behind, and Pm com-

pletely refreshed now, sit)’
- “You're game, I see; but tell me now just where you
left Cody and the numbers of the Indians you saw, with
the reasons of the scout for thinking they were to move
in large force, for I must confess all seems quiet up toward
the Indian country, and the scouts have reported no signs
since Buffalo Bill left the fort.”

“His idea was, sir, that the renegade chief would not be
so far away from his village unless he had other bands of
considerable number following.”

Phat is tres:

“There were about fifty with ae eee and Buffalo
Bill said they were in light marching order, as he ex-
pressed it, so there must be poe near with supplies.”

“Sure!” -

. “He checked thea at the Red Pass to gain time, sent
ae to. the Wynkoop. Valley Settlement to be on their
guard, and I took the news to Valley Farms, where I live,
‘while he remained in the basin to watch the Indians.” _

“We'll find him at the range, then; and, if- we can only
flank the basin, and get a force round to hold Red Pass,
we'll give Mr. Lo something to remember,’

“That is what Buffalo Bill said, sir.

“But he had a redskin prisoner, sir,”

“Ah! How did he catch him?”

Ned explained, and ‘the major said:

-“The trouble is, that, a redskin will die before he will
tell tales on his people, so. Cody will get nothing of value
from him as to the force of the redskins or their intentions.

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in the ride you have made, and, if Buffalo Bill is to be
your tutor, you have a brilliant career before you.)
_ “Come with me, for I will ride to where Cody’s Boys
in Buckskin are leading, and tell them to cut off every foot
of the trail they can, and have two men push ahead to try
and find their chief before we get up.”

“Can I go ahead with those men, sir?”

“Can you stand it?)

LOR, yes, sir.”

«Then, you can go,’

CHAPTER XIV.
AN ACT OF TREACHERY,

Willis Wynkoop’s friendly manner toward the pard
whom he had so recently intended to mark for life after a
short while seemed so sincere that Hal Halpine was de-
ceived.

In spite of the advice of Buffalo Bill for him to watch
the treacherous. boy, and his resolve to do so, Willis Wyn-
koop so well played the repentance act that at last.Hal
Halpine began to feel that he had become sincerely sorry
for what he had done, and so trusted him.

He even spoke in a more kindly tone of Ned Duncan,.
and, as ‘they rode along, said:

“T think I begin to see things in a different light ae
Hat .

“Our side did start the vendetta i in’ the first place, away
back in Kansas, and the Duncan’ party were right to de-
fend themselves. :

“Of course, I cannot but feel bitter toward Ned Dun-
can for killing Ralph, but, after all, it is best to let the
fact that the Duncans are out here remain a secret, and
thus end the feud.”

“That is by far the best plan, Willis, for all of us.’
“Tt is hard for me to think so, but I feel you are ae
Hal, and Buffalo Bill is right.”

Talking thus, and sincere himself, it was not long before
Willis. Wynkoop convinced Hal Halpine ee he had
turned over a new leaf.

They had not long left their a and the sun was al-

most upon the horizon.

Halting to arrange his Galea Willis uae
thus allowed Hal Halpine to pass on ahead of him. ©
The latter had gone about a hundred feet, when he

‘ heard:

“Stop a mince, Hall?
- The latter did so, and turned to look hak. at his fr na

| As he did so, he gave a start of horror and alarm.

What he saw was Willis Wynkoop standing on the
other side of his horse, his rifle resting across the saddle,
and his eye glancing along the sights.

He was too late, for the instant that Hal Halpine-real-

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ae that he had been caught off his guard by a traitor
_ friend, the rifle cracked ; the bullet was truly aimed, and

the youth dropped from his saddle, and lay, motionless, in

the trail, while his horse bounded away in alarm.
“Fool !

“Did he think I ule let him live, with the ee he

holds against me?

“Why, he would have told the boys at once of my in-
tention to mark him, and how Buffalo Bill marked me,
and I would no longer have ruled.

“Let him lie there for the wolves, and I will tell my
story when | go in.

“But I must first see Scott Jerome, the renegade guide.

“T’ll warn him that Buffalo Bill has sent for VODs; and
that will prove to him that I am ‘his friend.

“T do not believe the guide has more redskins than those
we saw at Red Pass, and so the settlement is no in danger.

“I will go there after I have seen Jerome, for he will
know that I am his friend then.

“And I'll lead him to make a es wipe- -out of the Dun-
can outfit.

“I may be a boy in years, but I am not to be downed by
Buffalo Bill, the Duncan gang, or any other foes.”

So saying, having reloaded his Lo he mounted his
horse, and rode on.

He halted, and gazed down at the ae lying on. the
trail, and muttered:

“Ffe’s done for.

“The bullet struck him fairly i in the tem nple.

“His horse will go to the settlement, I guess, but I'll be

there soon after, or,’ maybe, before, and ‘tell my: story of
Hal’s having been killed by Indians; and my being
wounded.

“Til flank around now, to get+o the Red Pass, where
the guide is, and see if his braves cannot catch Buffalo
Bull, as he will be alone.”

W ith another glance at the form of the friend whom fe ‘

had so treacherously fired upon, Willis Wynkoop rode on
until he came to a canyon running through the range.

It was dark now, but he knew that he could pass
through to the plains beyond, and then. continue back
along ‘the range until he came to Red Pass.

He had better sense than to go by night to the Indian

camp, but would wait until a and then approach with
upraised hands.

He wished to see the fonda. oe and he would sels

much to do so.
The canyon he passed oe at last brought him out
upon the plains on the other side of the range.

Turning to the left, he kept along the foothills, and con-

tinued his ride, mile after mile. -

He knew that midnight had come, and felt that He must

be drawing near to the Red Pass, so he halted, unsaddled
_his horse, and staked him out; and, spreading his blankets,
lay down to sleep, with no compunctions of conscience for

the dastardly act he had committed, no regret forthe one
who had been so true a friend to him, and whom he had
left lying upon the trail.

Whoever barred. his way, Or gained his hatred, was fair
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CHAPTER XV.
TAKING THE CHANCES.

The coming of dawn awoke Willis Wynkoop, and he
sprang to his feet, and gazed about him like one who did
not fully recall just where he was. :
Suddenly, all the truth flashed upon him, and his face
flushed and paled by turns, as it came to him how he had
broken all vows and turned his hand against his own peo-
ple, in that he had pulled a trigger upon Hal Halpine. —

For a moment he seemed frightened and unnerved ; but
he rallied quickly, and, with a light laugh, said:

“It is my sécret, and I am not telling upon myself.

“Tf I can only get rid of Buffalo Bill I will be safe, and
then the Uineene will once more feel the heavy hood of
the Wynkoops upon them.

“The one that can help me to rid myself of that accursed
scout is the guide, Scott Jerome, for he now has the
power, so now to find him.”

Mounting his horse, after eating a slight breakfast
from provisions with him, he rode along “the range to
find the Red Pass.

He had gone hardly over a mile, wien he discovered
some ponies feeding out upon the plain s, and a mounted
Indian was euarding them.

He knew that they must be near the entrance of the Red

Pass, and he was glad to see that they had not forced a _

way thr ough, so he. could find the white chief,

His very ignorance of just what to do was a: chee ated
to him, for he rode boldly toward the Indian, his hands

held above his head.

At first the red horseman did not see him, but he. was
not lon& in discovering him, and he gave a shout of alarm,
and began LO Cit cle around the ponies to drive them into

the pass.

Other braves came running from the pass, and all eyes
oe upon the strange paleface advancing so boldly toward
them.

But his uplifted arms protected him; he was alone, and
surely he must come upon an errand of peace.

Still, a dozen rifles were ready to send bullets at him,
with deadly aim, should he attempt to: turn and fly, or
show any sign of hostility.

Nearer and nearer he drew to the, Indians, and at last,
when within a couple of hundred yards of the group, out
from the timber at the base of the range rode a horseman.

It was the white chief. At sight of him, the boy gave
a glad ery, and called out:

“Ho, Scott Jerome, don’t you kn OW soe boy yaa Wil
lis Wynkoop: eo

“Ay, ay, | know you, Pard W illis.” ee

With the answer, the man halted, and. oun sus-
piciously up the range, and beyond the youth, as though
dreading a trap.

_ Don’ t be afraid of me, Scott, for I’m your friend.” Hos:

“T believe you are.” .
. Did Dnot prove ite? : 2

“Yes, you certainly did; but what brings you i oe

“To warn you of danger.”

“What danger ?” ee Ss

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Ete didi not half like the scowling, painted faces of the
score of warriors who had come up behind their chief.

“1 came here ‘fora talk with you.”

“Who is with you?’

“T am here alone.”

“Sure?”

indeed" | ain’

“Why did you come ?”

“To see you.’

“What do you want with me?”

“T’ve got something to tell you.”

“You took big chances to do so.”

“Tt is important—to you.’

“T et me knew what you've got to say.

“Do you know who you run upon in the Red 4 last
night: a
~ “A couple of dozen settlers, I guess, from seeing you
ere} bin 1 thought they were soldiers, from the ey they
fired.

“vou ae are learning to fight O. K.”

“Tt was Buffalo Bill!’

“The devil you say!

“And soldiers were with him:

“No. a9

“Who, then?”

“Why, Hal Halpine and myself were up the country on
a hunt, and we came upon Buffalo Bill and a kid from the
M alley Farms Settlement.”

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nea

What then?”

“He was on your trail, and meeting us, he a you were
bound for the basin beyond Red Pass, and we d head you
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a Ness

“Well, we made for it, and put us in position if the
pass, and we fired upon you, but I did not aim to kill, you
know.’

“And then ?:

“Buffalo Bill sent Hal H alpine and me dn to tell our
people to prepare for a raid——”

“Curse him!”

“Hal Halpine was wounded badly, and I had to almost
carry him; but he died on the way, and then I came
through a canyon last night to come round here and warn
you.’

"OF 7 at?”

“The scout said you were but the advance guard of a
large force of Indians who were to assemble in the basin,
ana then make a dash in two parties upon out settlement
and the Duncan Valley people.”

“How, in the devil’s name, did he find that out?”

“Ee seemed to know it in some way, for he sent the
Duncan boy to warn his people, and then told him to go
on to the fort and tell the cola just. what | he e knew you
intended.”

“He sent that boy you ue of to the fort, you say ?”

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“Fle said he would give you. ane your L aves another
check, and then the boy. was ta go wsth all speed, we (Hal.

and I). having started first.”
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“You turned against your own people?”

(Ob, no. oT thought you could capture and tcl the
scout, and would spare the Wynkoop Settlement, and
make a dash upon the Durican people, and wipe them Out |

so he could meet the soidiers when they

was the cool response of the young avenger.

CHARA XV
THE RENEGADE’S PLOT.

The renegade looked fixedly into the face of the youth,
Ww ho calmly met his eye, and then he said:
“T believe you have told me the tr uth, boy pard. e
have.
“It happened in the pass as you said.”
“Yes, | know what happened there up to the time we
ert
“And you came around here to warn me:
4 Ob did,”
“How came you to know I was here?’’ came the straight
question of the white chief.
Willis Wynkoop did not flinch, ae replied :
“Buffalo Bill has a fieldglass, and he was watching you
when you rode into the pass, and he said that he had be- -
lieved you dead, but he recognized you at the Hes of the

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endian band. e

B lvece.

“He gave us a look through his fapcacs and I knew
you at a glance, so, as we were old friends, though you
had turned against my people, I did not wish to see you
captured and hanged by the soldiers.’

“That was kind of you, boy pard.

“But you ! had some other motive?”

oY es

“Out with it.”

“I -had several.’

oWell?

“First, | wished to have you spare my people.”

“EN eS. 3)

“Then I wished you to make an attack on the Duncan
Settlement, with all your force.”

“Yh see,
_“And I wanted you to capture or kill Buffalo Bill,” c

The man was silent for several moments, aC he was °.

thinking deeply.

He could hardly doubt the.boy, and iy he a3 not wish
in any way to commit himself,

At last he said:

‘As your pard, Halpine, died of his wound and you
come here, no word was sent to warn your people: ee

“None. oy)

“But word went to the Duncan settlement: ae

hes, and to‘the fort

“And Buffalo Bill was to remain in the pass?”

“Yes, that was his plan.’

“My bands of braves will not all be here before mid-

might, and the soldiers from the fort cannot possibly get
‘to the basin before ne “morrow some time, if that boy was
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the only courier, ne doubtless he lost his way, and would
not ride very fast, anynow. .-.
_ “i can get my braves all ready. by midnight, ae a
dash for the Duncan Settlement, give up attacking the
Wynkoop people, and thus avoid the soldiers; and, wiping
out Valley Farms, regain our country in salety, and with
“scalps ‘and booty in plenty.”
. The renegade had spoken aloud, yet not as a con-
scious of having done so.
Still, Willis “Wynkoop had heard every word he ut-
tered, and said, earnestly :
“I-am so glad my people will not seer through my
warning VOU. oh)
“Your people would have hanged me, had Buffalo Bill
caught me in your wagon-train.
“But you warned me of his intention, so I escaped, and
I don’t forget what I owe you.

*“But I happen to know that it was a very rich party °

that I was guiding from Kansas, that the men all have
money and the women jewels in your settlement, and your
father is the custodian of all, keeping the valuables eand
gold in his large iron strong box made into his wagon.
“Now, I will not kill’your people, but that treasure I
must have, and you will ar fangs for me to’ slip into your
house some night and get it,” te
“Rob my father and his people?”
“Tl do the robbing, one ou only plan for me to ae it
without bloodshed.

“T have been:a good deal around your settlement, and

have noticed that’you go about alone a great deal; so, ina.

few weeks, | will be on the watch for you, and we will
plan to get the treasure.
. “Now, you understand?”
“T suppose I can do nothing to prevent ? i
“Not a thing.”
Well, how aoe Buffalo Bill?”
7 Fle is in the pass, you say: e Ri
“Ves: +9 ae ue ar ous « ay. y ,
“Then I shall end: a score of my braves around the way
you came, and we'll catch him, between that party and
mine,’

Pease eae Ce oe ve

“The braves can. go with, you as. fara as where you turn
off.”

7 ee:

“Did you bury your pard?”
No; ll take his body home with me on my way ack 4
rt the coyotes have not picked his bones clean.”
“T never thought of that,” and the boy shuddered. .
“And, remember, in ‘going | home, you are to’ warn pus
people?” oe
“Yes; but you will not att a the pie
“No; I will make it the Duncan Valley, this time, ad
later will visit you to get the treasure.”’
POAT mole
The renegade then turned to his. braves and talleed
earnestly a them in their own language for a few min-
utes, and’ the: cunning boy saw that they were listen”
ing, to words of praise the chief was ‘Speaking of him.
At length the renegade said:
“T will send twenty braves ar ound with you, to cut off
Buffalo. Bill, in the. ae Ss _ and the young chief. can speak ;
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“You direct him bow to go. hei you branch: off to. your
home.” .
a will.” : P: e

“Expect to see me in a iow Ww eeks, and aie that Bui-

talo Bill has met his doom, and the Dunean settlement i is

wiped out.”

 

CHAPTER (Xvi -0 7

THE KA wS 8 ALARM,

The renegade chief was satisfied with his compact ih
Willis Wynkoop, whom he had seen often when he had
acted as guide to the parties of settlers who had settled
near the forts forming two distinct settlements, the Wyn-

‘koops and their friends, under the leadership of the boy’s

father, forming one, and the Duncans the other.

Feeling that the boy had told him only the truth in what
he had said about Buffalo Bill being in the pass, and the
warning sent the fort and the settlements, the renegade

‘was more than content at his escape from a trap.

The Duncan Valley people, he knew, were rich, and he
would make a grand haul in attacking them.

Without having to divide the Indian force, he could
hurl them all upon the Valley Farms Settlement and
simply wipe it out.’

Tf the other settlement escaped, he was cued. for he.

had planned to get what he needed most—the treasure of

the Wynkoop people-—and with this in his possession he
would gladly take flight from that cue and ar him-
self ‘where he was not known.

By going to the Valley Farms Settlement lone he
would thus. avoid the soldiers and escape to his mountain
fastnesses with his booty and scalps, and meet only with
such losses as the braves would eiiter | in the attack on | the
settlers.

Confident of catching Buffalo Bill in Red Pass, the ren-
egade had ‘gladly sent ‘the young chief and twenty braves -
around. to go in at the other end, while he and as many
more of his warriors eared from the end where they
then were.

He had made no. other attack, after being again
thwarted’in breaking through, aad was confident ‘that the
brave sent on ahead had been captured or hey by the
scout. ;

His other bands would soon begin to come up, and
then he would be ready to strike his blow against Valley
Farms before the soldiers came up.

- And, with Buffalo Bill a prisoner, or dead, the cides
could not do otherwise than give chase, and would . not

‘be able to héad them off on their ride to ee settlement.

Thus did the ee chief feel that ne nae all going

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his way.

In the aneine Willis Wiytkece and the Indians 1 were.
riding along at a brisk trot. |

‘The youth was by the side of the young cee atid. was
talking with him as well as he could with the English
words at the command of the Indian. |

The youth felt satisfied at the renegade’s not attacking —
the Wynkoop Settlement, and, though he regretted that
the settlers must lose their treasure, his father most ofall,
he made up his mind that he would first secure a v fair

. share of the money and hide it away for himself.

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be done for, and the Duncan people wiped out, so he

would have his full revenge.

Then, as Hal Halpine was out of the way, he would
have no one who could say a word against him.

When he left the Indians, where they turned off to go
and brave the scout in the pass, he would then dash on,
tell of the fight with the redskins, that Hal Halpine had
died of his wound, that the Indians would doubtless make
a raid on the valley, and then get all the credit for giv-
ing the alarm, and for having been the hero of a fieht
with redskins.

Tf they cared-to go out after ne body of Hal Halpine
after the alarm was over, he would guide them to where
the youth had fallen, and the coyotes would have done
their work well by that time.

Thus argued the wicked boy as he rode on with the
young. Indian. chief,

The latter was watchful of every sign along the way,
and once halted at a trail,-and the braves all had a talk
over it, which Willis Wy nkoop did not understand.

The canyon was reached, and through it the redskins
went to the basin beyond.

Here Willis halted, and told the young chief that his
way lay to the left, while they must turn sharply to the
right and follow along the base of the range until they

came to the Red Pass.

_.. They would arrive there in a couple of hours, he gave
them to understand, and further along they would come
to the trail of his and his dead companion’s horses.

There he parted, with a a all around, and
rode. on‘his way once more.

‘He was half tempted to go by the spot where Hal Hal-
pine had fallen, but he seemed to dread doing so, and rode
on his way, giving the place a wide berth.

After a while he halted on a small stream, watered his
horse, staked him out, and then cooked for himself a
dinner of bacory, coffee, and the steak of an antelope he
had shot when with the Indians, giving them all but a
meal for himself.

This over with, he once more mounted his horse and
settled himself for a hard ride to the settlement.

His intention was to take his horse into ‘the valley with

every appearance of having been hard ridden, and spread
the alarm, calling all to arms, as he sped by cabin after
cabin in the settlement.
_ He had a tragic story,to tell of aa with the Indians,
receiving a bullet through his ear, Hal Halpine being
lailled, and that the redskins, in large force, under the
renegade the settlers had believed dead, were to swoop
down upon the settlement, unless Buffalo Bill got help
trom the fort.

So om he dashed, and his horse was fairly staggering
with weakness w then he rode into the lower end of the
valley and shouted as he neared the first cabin:

“To arms, then, to arms!

“The Indians are coming in large force to attack us!”

CHAPTER < XVIIE.

UA Vere OLoss CALL.

The shot that Willis W ynkoop fired SO treacherously

at his friend Hal Halpine was not a fatal one.
It had been well intended to be. so, and the aim had been

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true, but a slight ae of the head, when Hal Halpine
saw the puff of smoke from the rifle muzzle, had caused:
the bullet to strike him on the hard point of the bone. just a
over the eye and under the temple.

The blow was a severe one, and knocked the youth fon
his ‘saddle.

Te fell heavily, and jay stunned and as though déag.

The bullet had cut the flesh to the bone, glanced, and
sped on its way, while the wound it left appeared as
though it had entered the temple there.

iit ad Willis Wynkoop examined closely he would have
seen that it would take another shot to finish his dastardly
work, and there is no doubt that he would quickly have
fired again.

But he was fooled by the plone. unconscious form,
and that wound in the temple, and he rode on, as has been.
seen.

It was a mis
made. ,

‘Hardly had he been gone ten minutes before Hal Hal-
pine showed signs of returning consciousness.

He breathed. heavily, moved, and at last sat up.

He put his hands to his head, and one was stained with
blood.

It took some minutes to recall just what had happened,
but soon he did so, and as his eyes roared about he saw
far away in the Jistance the form of a horse and rider.

He knew that it was his pr a friend,

He lay ae again, fearing he might look behind and
see him, and he did not { feel equal to a struggle for his
life just then.

At last the form of horse and rider disappeared-in the
distance.

Then Hal Halpine arose to his feet, but staggered from
dizziness and weakness.

He remembered to have crossed a stream a short way
back, so made his way there, and, to his joy, found his
horse grazing near.

The animal attempted to run when he saw him, but the
loose bridle rein caught on the limb of a tree and held him
fast.

It, was well for Hal Halpine that his horse was fis
accidentally caught, for his rifle was swung to his saddle,
alone with his “haversack and provisions, blankets, and
whole camping outfit.

The horse looked sheepish at being thus cle verly caught,
and. humbly followed his master.

Leading him to the stream, the youth made him fast,
and then ‘began to bathe his wound and his head.

The cool water revived him, and the wound was bound
up with a strip of his handkerchief.

Then the youth mounted and oS on after Willis
W. ynkoop.

He wished to ride into the scene tual aK behind :
him and denounce him to all for his treacherous act.

But, going to where he had last seen him, to his surprise
Hal Halpine saw that the trail ao not lead to the settle-
ment.

What did it mean? Whither was Willis Wynkoop eo-
ing in that direction?
The experience he had had with the companion ee
he had once had a deep appreciation for, had admired,

take that other would-be murderers Te

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trusted, Mibeted up: to, now convinced him that he was

worse at heart than an Indian.

He knew that he must feel that it was a ficht for life
between them now. .

* For some reason he ye not understand, more than
that Willis Wynkoop wished him dead because he knew
how he had been humbled by Buffalo Bill; he had been
the ‘victim of a deliberate attempt at murder. ”

Believing he had killed him, Willis Wynkoop had left
him in the trail as he would have a wolf | ne had shot:

But why was he not going to the settlement :

After considering the matter over for some time, Hal
Halpine dismounted, hitched the horse, and began to climb
the range to reach a high point which he knew would
give him a view of the plain on the other side, for he must
be going thither, as he had passed on into the canyon.

Aner -a hard climb he reached the summit, and there
beheld, riding’ down the other side ef the range, the youth

‘whom he had now begun to hate most intensely.

“He can intend only one thing, and that is to join that

renegade chief.

Phat means mischief, I feel sure, and so 1 shall SO}

down and stake my horse out and then await his cous %

Having decided upon his course of action, Hal Halpine
fae to his home, had ao and then went ue to

the cliff to pass the night.

Nothing disturbed him during the night, and he slept
well until daybreak awakened him.

He returned to his little cainp, had breakfast, and then
weit back to the cliff, confident that Willis Wynkoop
had net returned under cover of the night. '

“No, he would not dare go to the Indian camp at night,
and I am sure he waited until this morning.

“Ii the Indians move, I can get to the settlement in time
ta give warning, so i wait here and watch to find out
what Willis Wynkoop’s game is.’

He had not been very Jong om the cliff aes his eye a
tected moving objects. on the plain. far down the range
and close to, the foothills.

Instantly he was all attention, and ue a while made
out that it was a party of horsemen:

a hey were coming along the foot of the range toward
him, though yet halt a dozen miles away.

As they drew nearer, he made out their number to be

twenty- two, that they were riding at a trot, save two in’

the lead, all: the rest rode in single file.

scarer they came, and:Hal Halpine saw that they were
Indians, save one, and that one he recognized as his now
bitter enemy, Willis Wynkoop.

“T know his game now.

“Fie knows Buffalo Bill remained in. dhe Red Pass, and

1¢ has seen his reriegade friend, made some terms with

h

him, and is going atound to entrap the scout.
“T will just ay against him,”

» other long look ,at the approaching horsemen, ‘Hal Hal-

pine PE Seenn ee. rapidly to where he had left his horse.

x A CHAPTER XIX
WARNED.

. Being certain that the intention of Willis Wy nkoop 1 was
to capture or kill Buffalo Bill by catching him in the Red a

Pass ew een two bands of Indians, Hal Halpine lost no

-and, having taken an-

time in mounting his horse and riding back over the trail

he had taken the day before with the youth whom ee

now knew to be so treacherous and evil- “hearted,

He knew that the Red Pass had high cliffs on Shee 8

side that no man could scale, and that if “caught there Buf-
falo Bill would be at the mercy of his: foes, bravest of
fights though he might make.

“Pe was well aware that the traitor guide oe only
be too glad to kill the scout who had denounced him and
thus thwarted his intention of leading” the Wynkoop
wagon train into a trap.

c he guide and Willis had been devoted friends before
the guide had turned renegade.

ell him how he could éntrap Buffalo Bill.”

All this Hal Halpine saw plainly from the standpoint
he viewed matters, and his one desire was to ride back
and warn the scout,

It was true that the settlement had not yet been warned
of the intended raid of the Indians, but the youth decided

that Buffalo Bill must first be warned, and then he.could —

go to Wynkoop Valley, or be governed by what the scout

i deemed best for him to doy

50 he rode on at a sharpening pace, anxious to get to

the scotit as soon as possible.

At last he drew near the break in the range, and, me
ing the pass, rode along at a walk.
ce believed the coe was there, but he was not sure.

He did not wish to make the mistake of riding upon da

band of redskins, so he kept a bright lookout ahead.
Presently the bend came in sicht, and he went more ¢cau-
tiously, for he was not sure of wwitat was beyond it.

A moment more and he saw the tall form of Buffalo”
Bill step out from the tocks, rifle in: hand, and he could

lave uttered a shout oF Oy, but wisely refrained from do-
Hig eo.

‘Buffalo Bill was surprised at seeing Hal, Halpine return
to the pass, and alone.

He had supposed that the two youths | were then - cat

the settlement they had gone.to warn.
Stepping into the trail, as Hal drew nearer, he said,

- quietly : ae
“Well, pard, you have done good riding if you have =

been to the se itlement and back. oe
“T have not been there yet, sir.’

“Ah! and where is that ugly- hoa pard of yours ?” ae

“Do you see this wotind on my face, sir??

“Ves: looks like a chip by a bullet—or did your horse
fall and | VOU cut inom astone ee
Vit as the mark of.a pallet, sir, and I will teil VOU, 4
Fapout 1b. . a
This the youth did, Buffalo: ‘Bul listening wgith thes. 7

deepest attention to the story.

.“ Well, for all that is mean ang tr reacherous, that Ce

fellow W ynkoop is the worst.

“So, he has gorie on alone to the seleienl to give hee

warning to the people es Hey about oe having been
killed by Indians?”

“No; he is not a dozen miles. from here, and coming ;

back. with some twenty Indians.” :
“Ah! where did they capture him ?”

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went through the canyon to the plains: and then down to

 

The latter would not fear
ie go to the renegade’s camp, especially when he could

 

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the end of this pass, where the rae cy chief and his
band are.’

“By the Rockies! that means he 1s coming back here
to hem me in!”

Yes, sir i] 0. 400k it,”

“Then T owe it to ioe that I am not caught like a rat

in a trap?”

“I thought it best to warn you, sir.’

“And I appreciate it, my boy; and, more, you deserve
much credit for the manner in which you discovered the
game of that young scoundrel.

“We will be friends, you may be sure; but now let me
see what is to be done.”

ess sir,’ a

“There were twenty braves, you say?”
“Twenty-one, sir, | counted.”
“Well, the Indians that the renegade chief is looking for

‘are ae due, and when those ‘Wat have flanked Pound

>

get into this pass they will close in until they meet each
other.

“Young Ducan can be depended upon, I know, and, if
he got through all right, he warned his settlement, and

‘that will prevent a sufprise, while there are doubtless

troops now on the way here.

“eet me see, they should be here by dawn in the basin,
if Pard Ned made a good ride of it, and I believe he did,
and it would be well to head them ‘off and have half the
force go around by the canyon and get on the other

“side of this range, so as to head the rodskins off when

the other half of the force attack them in the basin.

“This would prevent them making a dash toward the \

Wynkoop. Settlement, for those people must be protected,
not having been warned, and also not being to blame for
the acts of that young hyena, Willis Wynkoop.”

“Ves, sir, for my folks are there, and they are alk good

people; ‘put I feel sorry for Major Wynkoop, his wife, and

Miss Hilda, that Willis should be what he is.”
“Tt will be a good riddance when he is put out of the
way of further mischief, which will be.sooner or later.
“But I have an Indian prisoner here to look after,

and we must be getting out of this before we are cor-

raled here.”

With this, the scout went after his horse, sae having
untied his prisoner from a tree, he lifted him to a seat be-
hind his saddle, and, mounting, they rode out of the pass,
Buffalo Bill remarking : :

“T took the gag out of the red’s mouth because it was
cruel; but, as | dared not let him give a yell, I bandaged
his face up, as you see, so he could not chirp a note to his
comrades up the pass.”

' CHAPTER XX.
"HALTED ON THE TRAIL.

Upon leaving Red Pass, Buffalo Bill halted oe
and said:

VoaM, Derg. 2 think you can do what I wish done.’

CL can tty, sit,

“T will direct you so that you cannot miss your way

across the basin, and to the canyon on the other side,

where the soldiers must enter.”
“Yes, Sir.’

They will be ay by daw pee guess ; but you can get

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to the canyon before dark by good riding, and take up a
position where you can head them off.”

And then, sir?’

“Tf I am not mistaken, Major Brown will be in com,
mand, for he is always the one for such work, and you
are to tell him that you left me hiding here near the 1 pass.’

“But the Indians will find you.”

“Trust me that they do not, boy pard. :

“You take the Indian here on my horse; for where I
can hide myself | might not be so fortunate in finding —

a hiding-place for my ‘horse.”

UNes, sir.’

“Tell the major from me that I. captured the Indian,
sent word to the Valley Farms Settlement to be prepared
against an attack, and that you turned back when on your
way to the Wynkoop Settlement to warn me that the In-
dians were coming around to hem me in Red Pass

“You need not speak of your pard Wynkoop, as the
major knows nothing about him, and we'll attend to his
case later.

“Tell the officer in command that I suggest he divide his
force, and, skirting around the basin, leave it by the upper
canyon, and come down to attack at the other end of Red
Pass, or be there to strike a blow when the force he leaves
behind moves against them.

“This will prevent a retreat of the Indians by either
of the settlements, and push them hard in their flight.”

“Yes, sit.’

“Say that I will be in hiding where I can get a good
view of them; see their force, and. will meet the soldiers
when they are driving them. :

“Til remember, sir, to tell the officer just what you hate
told me,” said Hal Halpine, glad to be sent on a mission of
importance by the great scout, and also to be placed in
charge of the Indian prisoner.

After explicit instructions to: the youth, Buffalo Bill
took from his saddle a bag of provisions, made the pris-
oner fast to the horn, so he could not spring off of the
horse and escape, and then, shak cing a with Hal,
started him off on his ride.

The youth looked back after going soine distance, ‘and
saw that the scout had disappeared. ~

“Tt it it was any other man that Buffalo. Bill, I would:
be afraid he would be killed, left here alone and on foot,”
muttered the youth as he rode along.

‘The prisoner was securely. bound to his saddle, but with
a bandage about his mouth was forced to be silent.

His eyes, however, were bent upon Hal Halpine with a
look of most malignant hatred?

‘ Putting the horses into a lope, Hal rode on, following

his directions from the scout without a mistake.

He crossed the beautiful basin, or valley, and came to
the range of hills upon, the other side while the sun was:
yet above the horizon,

The canyon ‘was roa Ww itiout di Gace and, passing
through it, the youth reached the other side of the range
just at stinset and went into camp right where he could
command a view of all who approached.

Staking out the oe on the bank of a small stream,
he gathered wood, built a fire, and began to cook supper,
for he was very bunery.

Following the
to a tree, and

then

lecided to take the bandage off his

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mouth, as there was no one near for him to give the
alarm to.

When supper was ready, Hal gave the Indian a one :

of it, which was taken and eaten in silence and without
thanks.

After securing his prisoner beyond all chance of escape,
the youth spread his blanket and’lay down to get what
sleep he could, for he did not expect the soldiers to be
along before dawn.

But he was mistaken, as he Ai not know how ody
Ned Duncan had ridden to the fort, nor how hard Major
Brown had pushed his force on the march.

It was about midnight when he awoke with a start, for
he distinctly heard hoof-falls passing along the trail.

Convinced that it must be the advance of the soldiers,
he called out: :

“Halt, there!”

Instantly there was a scattering of several horses to
cover, and then a voice asked:

“Who are you, now we have halted } re

“Are you from the fort?” ay

We are, .

“Who are you? ae

ne messenger from Buffalo Bill.”

Now you're talking; but come Ou and show yourself
to us.’

Hal Halpine did what the er. scouts would not do
—he boldly left the clump: of trees where he was en-
camped and walked into the view of those he had chal-
lenged.

“Here I am.’

"You're all sk ” said a voice, and from several points —

of vantage rode four horsemen directly foward him, one
asking ;
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CHAPTER XXI
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a know you!

“You are Hal Halpine! !” cried one of the Hopecnene as.

the four drew rein near where the youth stood.

aes, I am Hal Halpine, and I know oe Ned pune
can.”

“Veg.” :

“I started for our settlement, but turned hack: to warn
Mr. Cody that there were Indians coming around in the
basin to catch him in Red Pass, and he sent me here to
meet the soldiers, a I brought his Indian prisoner
with me.’

Whee is hee?’

“Over there at my camp.

“Is Major Brown in- charge of ane eidiers for Mr.
Cody said he thought he would be?” «

“Yes; but he will not be along for half an our,

“You have news for him, I suppose, from the chief: oe

7 Yes”
“We are scouts of Chief Cody’ s band—at least, three

of us, this other ae a young: pard whom you seem to»

know.
“We will wait here and find out what are the major’s
orders’when he hears what’you have to say.”

This being decided upon, the scouts staked their horses”

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out, wood was thrown upon. the, smoldering fire that Hal:
Halpine had built, and the party sat around it talking, |
but no questions were asked by the men in buckskin, ex-.

cept what they thought would be for them to hear. —
After a short while, Hal Halpine arose and called Ned
Duncan to one side.
The latter followed without etiation: and Hal said :
“It’s only By you say?”
_ Yes. a>

“You. must have ridden bien hard: to ‘the foe bt
Mr. ‘Cody did not expect the soldiers ‘to reach the ‘basin :

before day break, and’ perhaps not then.’

“I made a hard ride of it, and the Ls of the soldiers

has béen a fast one.’
“Did you warn your people also?”
fv es es
Well, T did: not.”

do. so.’

“T know; but, Ned Dunean, I’ve got. something to tell

you, and which 4 do not care to have others. know: i
MNT @ AL D? a =
“It’s about. Willis Wiyukoo st?

“Has anything happened to him?”
“Tl tell you, and then you'll undetstand just what he

is, and you can advise me as to what is best for me to do, —
for I am sure, if Willis is not stopped in some way, he
will bring the Wynkoop-Duncan feud on again, and you. -

know allt that that.means.

“We, the Wynkoop faction, left Kansas to ‘stop that

deadly vendetta, and, know wing the part that the Duncan

faction has taken through all, I can hardly believe that _

yOu dogged us out here to keep it up:

“No, indeed, far from it; for, now that. you ans oe f

wie you have, T will.as frankly admit that my father

and. the ote left Kansas that - the hatchet might be :

bur ied, eS

“T am glad to Hear Hiss ie it is W cite Wynkoop ane :

is determined that the feud shall break out again; but
listen to what I haye-to tell 5 you about him.”

Ned Duncan did listen to all that Hal Halpine had to

tell—of the influence Willis Wynkoop had held over him,

‘and how at last it had been broken off by the discovery of
' the youth’s treachery to one who had been. his best friend.

He heard of the intended death shot, the going of
Willis Wynkoop to the Indian camp, and its purpose, and

how he had returned to warn Buffalo Bill.

“We have been reared as foes, Ned Dancanbrounht |
up to believe that it was war to the death between the
Wynkoops and the Duncans, and yet I admire and elo

spect you, and, for one, I wish to end this feud.
a he very fact: that our respective people left Kaneas

to bury this vendetta is proof that they are willing it
should end, and I feel that you and I, who alone know ©
thie truth of the whole affair, can put an end to this Jkill-
ing,” said Hal Halpine, in finishing tis story. 7 |

At once Ned Duncan held out his ee and grasped that
‘of his former young foe. :

He had listened Breen Ty to all that was told him, arid iE
then said:
“I heat the cavalry coming, ae I will haeedacs you. to.
Major Brown, who allowed me to come on ahead with —
the: ‘Scouts, as we ee to find Buffalo Bill yes

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for us somewhere before we got. i the basin,” and Ned-
Duncan led the way back to the fire just as Major Brown
rode up and dismounted,

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TE FIRST BLOW.

M ajor Brown heard what Hal Halpine had to tell him
of what Buffalo Bill told him he deemed best to be done,
and, with perfect confidence in the chief of scout’s ability
to know and plan well, he at once decided to divide his
force and carry out the suggestion. -

He immediately called for the men with the quickest
horses to be the ones to make the ride around the basin
and through the canyon to the other side of the range,

-and, having brought four pieces of light artillery along,
he sent two with this force, Captain ‘Plummer being in

command.

‘The ee and all else was left behind, so that a rapid
march could be made, and Hal Halpine was to accompany
the command, as it was his request that he might. be al-
lowed to do so, Ned Duncan remaining on Major
Brown.

“You will reach the pass about dawn, by bere riding,
Captain Plummer, so I will as into, the basin and attack
about that time.

“J will drive them ei, an the Red Pass ee they.

will doubtless make a stand, and, if you have gotten into

~ position, we can hem them in and force a surrender,”

“T will be on time, never fear, for I shall push on with

the freshest horses, leaving those that give out to follow .

as well as they ean.

“Tt is now just half-past twelve, five hours to daylight,
and I have twenty-five to thirty miles to make, but a forced
march will do it,” and, mounting his horse, Captain Plum-
mer called.to Hal Halpine to ride along with him, and
placed himself at the head of his two troops of cavalry
and section of artillery.

Off they went in the arenes two of Buffalo Bill’s
scouts leading the way, and the pace that was set was at
six miles an hour.

This was kept up, and just at aah the bend in the

range was ahead of them.

 

A moment later there ‘came the sound of distant firing, °

and Captain Plummer shouted:
“The major is upon them!”

At the same moment a scout dashed back | called.

out :

“The Soins is black with their ponies, Sipe a couple of
miles down the range, and there are redskins running on
foot to the pass.’

aves, they expect to make a oad there; but we have
something to say about that,” and Captain Plummer called
a halt for his men-to close up, for they were stretched out

in a long, straggling line.

The two pieces of artillery had kept. well up, and the
gunners were getting ready for action, while the troop-
ers were dismounting to give their horses a breathing
spell-and tighten their cirths. .

‘Captain “Keyes, do you remain here, sit, and form-the

stragglers as they come up, until you have about forty,

and then move out and surround those Indian ponies.

“The other men, as they straggle up, are to come on <0 ~

iad

é

the plain,

re

my support, and you can mount your men on the Indian
ponies, which are comparatively fresh, and send me ee

Tay you Cail spare.’

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“Yes, sir,” answered Captain Keyes: and then Cabiae
Plummer, with seventy troopers and two guns, moved for-
ward in close order.

Around the bend rode Captain Plummer, Hal Halpine —
by his side, and the pace was a trot as the mouth of the ’
pass came into view.

‘Half a thousand Indian ponies were row well out upon
huddled -together,-under a score of rédskin
guards, for all the others had rushed for the pass to join
in the battle raging over in the basin, two miles away.

So occupied were the Indian cuards in watching the
pass that they did not see the cavalry until they had sud- |
denly dashed out of the pines along the foothills and
charged for the entrance to Red Pass.

“At the same tirne they discovered that there was a line
of cavalrymen under Captain Keyes circling around them..-

With wild yells of rage and terror, as they were cut off
from reaching the pass by Captain ‘Plummer, they tried
to stampede the ponies and break off with them.

But in this they were thwarted, as Captain Keyes
pressed them too hard, and the score of redskins could

only save themselves by rapidly dashing off « on the ponies.

they rode and leaving the whole herd.
As Captain Keyés surrounded the ponies, Captain
Plummer and his men dashed’ into the entrance of the

catryon, and the guns were unlimbered for action.

CHAPTER . XXIII.
: FOILED.

Major Brown moved forward with his command, after’
a couple of hours’ rest and an early breakiast, so that his

force, horses and men, were in much better fighting trim

than were Captain Plummer’s party.

The scouts were thrown out well ahead, and it was just
before dawn that one of them came back and reported the
Indians encamped in large numbers in the Le just
around the entrance to Red ‘Pass. Mt

With this information, Major Brown Casa to co mis |
men in line of battle for an advance as soon as it was
dawn. °

But what had become of Buialo Bill? I hear my reader
ask, with some anxiety.

He had: seen Hal Halpine off on his errand to Mewar :

3rown, and, though left alone: and on-foot among foes,
he seemed to feel no anxiety.

His intention was to gain a point of vantage whones hes
could be safe and could see all that took place about him.

To do this, he went to where the cliffs were lowest,
right where the bend was in the pass.

“Tt was over the spot where he and the*boys iad ood off -
the Indians under the renegade chief. ;

Settling himself comfortably in position, he had nothing
to do but wait.

Night was near at hand, when he suddenly discovered
an Indian on foot and skulking through the pass. —

Soon another and another appeared, and, as they ad-
vanced, they peeped into every crevice of the cliffs.

Then a dozen came into view, and all ne ssed directl y be- re
oa where he was hid den.

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24 THE BUFFA!.©

They came from the basin side, so were ‘the warriors
whom Willis Wynkoop had. led there to entrap him.

‘These passed on out’ of sight up the pass, and then came
into sight the young chief, and by his side was riding Wil-_
lis W ynkoop.

The scout lay might low, washing: and listening,

He saw following the chief and- boy traitor eight more
redskins, mounted “and leading the ponies of their com-
rades who were on foot searching the pass for Buffalo
Bill.

At a point just be neath where he was hiding he chief
and Willis Wynkoop halted.

They were waiting for some shout or * shot to tell them

the scout had been: discovered, :

Hidden among the rocks, and with a pine bush over his
head, Buffalo Bill could distinetly see his foes, not sixty
feet below him, but could not be seen.

Presently. a ‘yell was heard up the canyon; then an
answer, followed by a series of ue and there rode into
sight the renegade chief.

About him were the search party, and behind him fol.
lowed a large number of redskins on horseback.

The bands of warriors had begun to arrive for the
attack on the settlements.

But the searching party ey Bill and the rene-

-gade chief had met in the pass, and the.scout had not been

found,
~The white chief rode up to the youth. ae said :
: fis too bad that he had gone before you got here.”
“Ym awful sorry,” the scout heard his young foe reply.
“Yes; for he has gone to the fort for help; and yet it

-will do no good, for my bands are arriving rapidly, and I

will start on the raid in the morning and 2 down upon.
the Duncan Settlement.

“We'll. get scalps and booty there Meaty. of both—

and I will Tet your valley goby; only, later,-as I told you,

I wish to get at that strong box in your father’s keeping,
and which you are to help 1 me to7do,”

“Yes, Dll help you to get the booty if you will spare
my people.”

aL il do qt? M

“But do you wish to ride on to the Duncan Settientent
and see me make clean work of Ibe:

“T will go home.”

ie right; just as you please, and I’ll be slong | in about.
three weeks or so for. the booty.”

ue ll arrange for you to get it, adey | it is tobe my-
se 39

_X Ou won't suffer much, for you are not that kind.”

“Have you got many redskins with you?”
"Yess a thousand braves.

“T will camp half of them in the basin Ne -night, and
halt the others out on the plain at the stream, for they will
go up that side of the range and I on the other, to strike
the Duncan Settlenient from two points.”

“Make clean work of it, though you'll hardly catch Ned
Duncan, as Buffalo Bill sent him to the fort; but I will
catch him, for I shall be out with my band of ‘Boy Regu-
lators mighty soon on his trail.”

“Now, Id better be off, for you’ve got more Indians

‘than I like to look at.”

ay know ee as my friend, so you are all right;

but, in oe io your Thay a don’t forget Buffalo Bill,

for he’s the most dangerous man in this country.”
“Tl be on his trail, too, and show him no mercy, you

tee ” and with a word of two more, Willis Wynkoop rode

back through the Paes on his night ride to Wynkoop Val-

iley.
‘And eufalo Bill a seen _ heard all that had tee

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Major Brown advanced his men ne across the
meadowland, flanked the ponies of the redskins feeding

not far away, got between them and the campfires, about.

which five hundred braves lay sleeping, and, just as light
began to glimmer in the east, halted for the. death leap
that was now to follow.

So quietly had the approach been made that the euards
had not suspected the slight sounds,they heard as being an
evidence of danger near, ~and not until the two six- pound-
ers broke the s
bursting shells into the midst of the Indian camp, did
the startled braves dream that death was upon them. -

A volley of carbine bullets followed the fire of the cuns,
and then the firing became fast and furious for several
minutes, when the order came*to move forward and drive
the Indians into the pass, half a mile away.

Not. suspecting a. foe there, and cut off’ from ae
ponies, while the fire

had laid many a brave low, the red-
skins were only too anxious to retreat into. the Le and
make a stand: ~~

‘Their renegade chief always kept ne horse near hin.
so. he had qu Hickly. leaped into his saddle ; but in vain he
tried to check the flight of his braves} for, though-he saw
that the tr copers did not number one-third of his force,
he was powerless to rally the dismayed braves.

Cut off trom their ponies, many having lost their weap-

ons, the pass furnished a
a panic-stricken horde.
Andon came Major Brown and his men, ihe guns ae
ing pushed m
ling death into the redskin ranks.
Over the dead and dying went. horses: oa -guns, and

safe retreat, so a: sy fled,

formed a line in front of the pass, into which. there rained +

bullets and shells.

The now frantic savages were forced to retreat to the
first bend in the pass, but hot on their heels came their rey

lentless destroyers.

Suddenly there was a wild cheer from the nets

mingling with the wild war cries of the redskins, for In-
dian and soldier ali beheld the same strange sight.

What they saw was the form of the white renegade as
he rode at a tun beneath the low cliff at the bends sud-

denly jerked backward out of his saddle, as a lariat noose
settled about his neck from above;

struggling form was drawn upward ‘by an effort of giant
strength and left hanging in midair !

For a moment on the cliff, hauling on the lasso, had

: been seett the tall form of Buffalo Bill! a
And in that moment of death agony, as his eyes elanced
upward and his hand tugged at the noose about his neck,
Scott Jerome, the renegade guide and white chief of the

_ ‘Indians, had seen’ who. it was that had thrown the lariat

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tillness of the valley, and sent shrieking,

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aad cae lane skill, and bad thus brought his evil
life to. a close.

‘The sight of the foun swaying in midair, held by the
lasso of Buffalo Bill, was a startling one to the soldiers
one and all, and an appalling one to the Indians.

Major Brown understood this humane. side. of. the

- scout’s nature, and called out to an officer near:

“Cody has brought the renegade to book, but will not
fire on the redskins, I see, and- that is proof to my mind
we have them thoroughly whipped and cowed.

“But we should hear from Plummer soon.” .

Hardly had the words been uttered, when Ned Duncan
called out:

“There ate indians dashing this way, sir, in large nun
bers from the other end of the pass.’ ;

“Then Plummer is driving them!

“Steady, men, for the reds will try to dash over us!”

The cannon were now placed at the bend, the troopers
were all dismounted and formed in line, protected by rocks
and trees hastily cut down, and all was made ready for a
desperate rush of the Indiaris.

Then was heard firing, hot and fast, from the other end
of the pass, and in one mighty mass the stampeded In-
dians came with a rush, only a few of them mounted,
to break through the lines of Major Brown.

But the guns and carbines nated them back, and,
their despair, they turned and sped toward the other dnd!
_, » At once was heard the roar of the field. battery and the

rattle of the catbines: S

“Plummer is at it now. Pray Heaven he check them !
cried Major Brown.

The firing ceased, and a wild cheer sweeping up the
pass told the story, that Captain Plummer had hurled the
red masses back, ‘that ey were eG hemmed in
beyond escape. _

Then came a deathlike sles. but it was soon broken
by the clear tones of Buffalo Bill from the cliffs, calling
down to the Indians in their own language and telling
them to submit and mercy would be shown.

“That is right, Cody! Make what terms you please, :
> called out Major Brown. .

And the fons of the scout were fistened to; the red
raiders surrendered on conditions they were clad to get,
that they should care for their dead and wounded and be
_ allowed an ample number of ponies to bear them back

to*their villages, all So Warriors pone: forced to
go on foot.

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- CHAPTER XXV.
THE So AND o> DECOYS.

Having seen that the Indians were beyond ali: eee
of resuming hostilities, and Major Brown having allowed
them to go out upon the plain at the further end of the
pass to camp and prepare for their retreat, Buffalo Bill
lowered the body of the dead renegade so that it could be
taker from his lasso by men mounted upon horseback.
That done, he called out to the major that he was going
off on a special scout he would explain later.

He also called out to Ned Duncan and Hal Halpine,
who were talking together, to come back through the

_ basin,-bringing his horse, and to meet him on the trail to

Wynkoop Valley.

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As Willis Wynkoop pad not been found with the In-
dians, it was certain that he had gone to the-settlement,
and it was Buffalo Bill’s determination’ to check him in his
mad career. before the Se lad” could do any more

‘damage.

80, “back over the range went the scout, and ae sev-
eral miles’ walk reached the trail in the basin just as Ned
Duncan and Hal Halpine came in sight, leading” Buffalo
Bill’s horse.

They gave a cheer at sight of the big pard, and, dash-
ing forward; warmly Saas his hands, Ned Duncan
saying :

“Hal and I are the best of friends now, Mr. Coan and
if we have our way the Wynkoop- ~Duncan vendetta will
never be renewed.” ~

“Tt will not be if I have my way, boy Rerds, and I wish
you both to go with me to the Wynkoop Valley, where [
intend to have my little say.

“T shall show Major Wynkoop that it was you, Ned,
who saved the life of his daughter Hilda, when attacked
by the lion, and that you aided in saving both his wicked
son and Hal Halpine here from being killed by the In-
dians,

“I will then make known the true story: of Willis Wyn-
koop’s crimes toward you, toward Hal Halpine and my- —
self, and his alliance with the renegade guide.

“As a government officer, I shall then arrest Willis
W ynkoop as a renegade and take him to the fort for trial.

“You two boys have been my noble allies, my brave and
able decoys, and I will show the people of both settlements
all that you are, and try and have them bury the hatchet,
let the old Kansas feud be. ended, and have the dead past
bury its dead.”

The two boys listened with deepest interest to all the
scout had said, and they were both of the opinion, from
what they knew of their people, and of the reason they
had left Kansas, that all would be most willing to live »
in peace.

So the heads of the three horses were turned toward
the Wynkoop Settlement, and a halt was made at the first
stream for breakfast and a rest.

The scout had called out to the boys to bring along a 4
good supply of food, so they had a breakfast that all ©
greatly relished.

Wishing to reach the settlement at night, so that Willis
Wynkoop would not discover their appr oach, the scout
decided that they would rest where they were until the at.
ternoon, and then continue on their way.

Their horses were tired, they were tired, and the rest
would do all good; so their blankets were spread, the ani-
mals put upon a rich grazing ground nearby, and the
trio were fast asleep in a very short while. S

It was the middle of the afterncon when they ce
had dinner and mounted to continue on their way. :

They had proceeded:a dozen miles or so when. Buffalo |
Bill remarked:

“Two trails cross above here in the valley, and by ¢ one
you can go the shortest way to your settlement, Pard Ded u
should I not return with you. —

“Tt is a cut-off of thirty miles, at least, from this trail
through the basin.” oF

“T will remember it, sir.’

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ley, and that is the way you and that. winked comrade of
yours €ame, was it not, Pard Hal?’
“Yes, sir; but we didn’t know, the shdtt. oF you just
spoke of to Valley Farms Settlement, for we continued on
‘this trail through the basin and: Red Pass.”
a “Willis Wynkoop had been this way before?”
“Yes, sir; quite often, and alone. He had been wateh-
ing his ‘chances to kill Ned Duncan; or, in fact-——
Buffalo Bill halted and held up his hand for silence.
Then there came to their ears the sound of hoofs, but
as there was ahead a clump of pines it hid from view
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‘CHAPTER XXVI-
BURFALO MELLO WINS.

This thicket was at the spot where the trails crossed,

to which Buffalo Bill had referred’ a moment before hear-
ing the sound of hoofs.

The keen ear of the scout soon fevered that two parties
of horsemen were approaching—one from the right, the
other from the left—and knew that they must soon come
into view of each other as s they both emerged from the

“thicket.

Buffalo Bill and his ao Deas paras fad halted in the
edge of a heavy growth of timber, where they could see
and not be seen, and.there they waited.

Soon there came into view a party of a dozen horsemen
“--settlers Irom the Duncan Settlement.

But Buffalo Bill checked» Ned Duncan, who was come

to call out to them,
“Wait until we know who the others a are,’

he spoke there came out of the pine icles a dozen
hor semen, and Buffalo Bill exclaimed:

Vhy, they are masked—which means that they are
outlaws |
- "See! they do not appear surprised at the sight of your
party, Pard Ned, so must have known they were-near.
aes; and they are going to attack them!” —

OM Mr c ody, those are Willis Wynkoop’s’ Boy Regu-
oe They are’a band of boys he leads, who are sup-
posed eo do police duty about-the settlement. -I know. his
claybank horse, with silver mane and tail! ! cried Hal
Halpine.

“Then we must stop the fight between these two bands,
zor Heht it will be! Come on, boy pards!” and Buffalo
Bul and the two dashed. forward at the: full speed of their
hor ses.

But the last ae of horsemen: hee oon Ned Dua

can had said were the boys of his: settlement, had halted
“at sight of the others, drawn their revolvers, and, seeing
that “they were to be attacked by the masked horsemen,
rode forward to meet them.

This seemed to surprise the masked den. who were
led across the front of the others, not directly toward
them, by the leader on the claybank horse, and whom Hal
Halpine had asserted was none _ other than Willis oe yn-
‘oop,

‘They apparently were anxious to feel the strength of
their foes before they dashed ‘into them, and polar

ee might get worsted,

Seeing this, Buffalo Bill ened.
“Ride for it, boy pards! We can check that fight! ug

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BILL STORIES,

But as the scout uttered the words, there: came the
cracking of revolvérs, and the trio, tiding hard-to the
rescue, saw a horse go ‘down here and mere, and the leader
‘on the claybank fall.

Another instant and Buffalo Bill and is two! eae had

dashed into the fight, and ins thunder tones came the «

scout’s command:
“Hold! The one he ae caather shot t will kill YP?

Not another shot was fired; _and la eye was turned

on Buffalo Bill.

“Off with those black masks, boys of Wynkoop Valley,
unless you wish me to treat you as outlaws!”

Uhe command of the scout. was. instantly obeyed,

“Boy pards, hear what I have to say, and you will be
glad that I have ended this ight before any other harm
has been done than the death of that vile fellow lying
there, a few wounds, and-the loss of-several horses.

“You, boys of Wynkoop Valley, have been led away
by your wicked young captain, whose deeds of evil I shail
now make known to you,”

Amida deathlike silence; Buffalo Bill told the story

of Willis Wynkoop’s crimes against Ned Duncan, his own
comrade, Hal Halpine, and himself, and his s alliance with
the renegade chief.

Continuing, he’ said:
. Willis Wynkoop, failing. to entrap me in Red Pass,
and believing Hal Halpine to be dead, went to the settle-

ment, told his false story of being wounded by redskins,
when I put that bullet-hole in his ear, told how Hal Hal-

pine had been killed by ‘the Indians, watned the people to
be on their guard, and, having made himself a hero, he

led you, his Boy Regulators, out on a scout.

“Am I right in believing that he in some way discov-

ered the presence of the Duncan party near, and decided io

attack them ?”
“Yes, sir; when in camp, a few miles back, he went off

alone and told us he had found a band of. outlaws camp- —
ing near, and ordered us to mask ourselves and attack

them.

‘Then he handed to each one of us a black aslo ands:

we were riding for the outlaws’ camp when we met those
we now know to be the Duncan boys.,”’

So, answered, in a ale way, a or by: the | name of
Bert Smedley, © © >

“Yes, they. are the Duncan hove as yOu call them, a
: band of ‘young regulators under their daring captain here,
Ned Duncan, and to whom you owe it, by his riding to
the fort for help, that your settlement was not wiped out
utterly by the redskin raiders. —

“T have already told you of Ned Dagon and how Wil-
lis Wynkoop treacherously sought to kill him. You know
him now as the one who saved beautiful Hilda Wynkoop

from a fearful death, and yet that fact known to her

brother, he will try to kill her noble rescuer.

“The Duncans left Kansas, as did the Wynkoops, to
end this fatal feud, and fate led both ‘bands here; but it
was for a better purpose than to have you still continue
this deadly fight. a

“Tf Ned Duncan killed Polen Un: it was in self-
defense, as you all know, and in return you now know

that it was he who saved Hilda Wynkoop—and it was
Ned Duncan who rode hard and brought peice to, save

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It was Ned Duncan who poke

“g “And J accept it!” cried Hal Halpine, and thet —

were ‘warmly clasped.
Bert Smedley was: next, and so on it Went meal on
one of the’ Wynkoop Valley Boy Regulators: had ae
hands with Ned Duncan.
¥ Hal Halpine then told his story, and there were had.
shakes all atound, while Buffalo Bill was looking a
_~ several slight wounds received | by the boys.
_ Half a dozen horses had fallen under the fire, ba it
was fortunate that only one life had been sacrificed.

Who had fired that death shot, if known, was not told,
but it was meant to kill, for it pierced heart of W illis
Wy eieoop

There he lay. dead upon the field, the victim of his own
cruel and evil plot. |

He was wrapped in his blahleet and buried where he fell,
while Hal Halpine and Bert Smedley rode on to Wynkoop
Valley with Buffalo Bill to break the news of his death
and tell the Story of the evil career of the misguided
youth.

And slowly followed the two bands of Hey Regulators,
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_ CHAPTER XXVIT.
4 CONCLUSION,

a was fe night when Buffalo Bill sid the wo: Souths
Hal Halpine and Bert Smedley, arrived in Wynkoop Set-
tlement and rode straight to the cabin of Major Wyn-
koop.

There, in the presence of the major, his wae and daugh-
ter, and several of the settlers called in to hear it, the scout

again repeated. the long, sad story of Willis. Wyakoop’s
Crimes.

Fe told of the rescue of Hilda by Ned Duncan, and she
‘at once vouched for it, and said that her ‘brother had
known all. _

. 4. ‘He told’ ofall that Ned Dunean) shad done ie spare his
bitter foe, of the ride to Red Pass to prevent him and Hal
Halpine , from being killed by Indians, of how the latter
had been treated by his supposed friend, of the night ride

to the fort for help, of the fight in the pass, the capture of
the whole force’ of redskins, the flying of the Duncans.
West purposely to end the feud, the determination of
Willis Wynkoop. to reopen it, and. the attack upon the
Duncan ‘boys, whom he claimed. were: outlaws, and then
ot his life paying the penalty of that last act of treachery.
“It was an act of divine justice, it seems. It is better
‘so, and the “memory ‘of my poor, wicked boy must ‘be
blotted. ont of our Aves Wilke.
So said the consoling father, = the br ave but suffer ing
mother added:

of es, it is bee that; ae rae SO. Ge ere more befell

him and greater Ssotrow Caine fous,
“Not as what he was, but what Aghelieved him, will I
remember him.” ce :

THE BUFFALO: BILL STORIES.

Who will 8 ie 4 on either side to extend the hand

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pre his hands across his eyes, pale ee
added :

“Tt is for me now 40 pene Mr. Cody. . Se

“T will go with you and welcome that noble boy Duncan
to our home, him and his comrades, for the past is dead
and shall be buried in the grave of. forgetfulness.”

These noble sentiments of the brave major were. ap-
plauded by all present.

The feud was a feud-no more!

Buffalo Bill and his two companions, on fresh horses,
returned that night, to the camp of the Boy Regulators
to tell the good news.

The next day the’ young Ree lon rode into the settle-
ment, to be everywhere welcomed most warmly, and Ned
Duncan was asked to become his guest at W ynkoop
cabin.

. But he said that he ieee return at once 10 his bone
and when he did so the Boy Regulators of Wynkoop Val-
leyswent along as his escort. At their head, as captain,
rode Hal Halpine, while Buffalo Bill was the honored
guest of all.

‘When the basin was tense the . soldiers: were still
there, for the Indians had just finished burying their dead,

‘and were starting upon their sad march to their villages,
convinced that they: must live in ne with their white
brother.

Buffalo Bill had the Boy Regulators return with the sol-
diers first to the fort, and there gave them a sight of army
life on the frontier ; then he led them to the Duncan Set-
tlement.

The scout repeated the whole story to Dr. Duncan and
those of the settlement he had called in to hear it, and as
the Duncan Boy Regulators had been welcomed i in Wyn-

koop Valley, so were the band under young Captain Hal
‘Halpine greeted by those who ‘had once been their foes,

and thus was the border vendetta brought to:a close.

. Years later, as a fitting sequel, Ned Duncan claimed as
his bride lovely Hilda Wynkoop, and Buffalo Bill, as jus- _
tice of the peace, was the one who united two loving hearts
whose paths i in life had once gone such separate ways, to

be at last brought together in happiness through the act —

of the great. borderman, who to his fame as scout, Indian

slayer and outlaw terror in this. case added that of peace-

maker and oe ee in a strange settlement epi~

- LHE END.

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The Mystery of a Cabin.
(By George Golden, Oakland, Cal.)

There was to be an entertainment at a neighbor's house
one evening, and all the folks from our home were in-
vited to go. As I had not been feeling very well that day

_ I did not care about going, so I stayed home and went to

bed early. oN
I went to sleep as soon as I struck the pillow and soon

fell into a very curious dream.

I began to dream that I was wandering about in a great

Oy when I came upon a little log cabin, which looked

as if it had not been used for a great many years.

I started to open the door, and, as I did so, it. sprang
back and opened by itself. I thought this was’ very
strange, but I went in and looked about, but I could not
see anything but a small hole in the floor about as e lates
as a dollar.

As I stood there, locke at ake inside ‘of the éabin, Ee
was startled-to hear a shrill little noise, that came from the
little hole in the floor.

This drew my attention to the hole, and as I stood there
looking at it, there came a little red light and a few little
men came out who were about as tall as a peaholder and
so fat that they loked like a pumpkin,

_ Then there came a little blue light and some more he

fat men came out and joined the others, who began to sing -
and dance with their uve hands up in the air above their i

heads.

After a while there came a knocking on the floor and _

all the little men sat down with their arms folded and their

legs crossed. They sat this way about five minutes when

all sorts of lights shone from the hole, and a little qucen,
all ae F in a white dress covered with gold braid, came

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hole. ;
After a few ee he. little men sang and danced

out, and back of her six little 1 men on short pants and

large buckles at their knees, came out holding up the ae a

trail of her dress.
In one hand the’ queen held a small stick, and in ee
other she held a fan.

The stick was, very beautiful and ie with many —

pretty figures.

She took this little stick ant epee three times on. ohe
floor and then there came one little man who had three
little tables, and who set them before the queen, which she

touched with the little stick in’ her hand and the three little

tables turned into one large table covered with all kinds of
fine things to eat.
Then she tapped three more times and another little
man came with a small basket filled with rocks, then he
took one rock at a time and set them around the table on

the floor, then he stood at one side with the other Hitile:.
_men,

The little queen then went about touching each. tau
with the stick in her hand, and soon all the little ‘rocks
turned into chairs. Then all the little men sat down and
began to eat, while at one end of the table sat the queen.

After they got through eating she waved her. wand and
every one of the little men got up and stood on one side

with their little hats in their hands, and then the queen

walked past and then she stopped and all the little men

- began to sing and dance; then they stopped and the queen

turned to enter. the Hole in the floor, when she turned
about again and waved her wand and went the

again, then they turned about and walked to the hole, and

one at a time disappeared in the little hole till all were
gone, and then I came to look at the place where they had

one, but could. ony see the little hole ae not hear a
sound.
When I wore up im ne morning T felt very aaah bee
and iad a very pleasant dream, yet a very curious one.

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By Sitherland Loomis,

   
 

a retired one. night, a little over a year AZO; and beine
tired was soon in: the arms of Morpheus.

1 dreamed” Ag was ee eile ov one toad, when | there.

came past. me, galloping, a horse from wince fire was

streaming in alt A pecliGns.

“A man rushed after him, slot: op ly! fet is. away! poe

— Many people went past like mad also shoutitig, ae ly!

Next day I told my friend the dream.
said it was a warning.

We follow sports a good deal. and to otir stitprise we
saw oti the sporting page. of a paper. two-days after the

dream an account of a race where a horse called. Flyfire
won at 40 to I. ‘

I will never forgive myself foe ot being a stpersti-
tious gambler. If 1 was, | might have won a fortune.

A Joke in a Dream.
(By Oscar Seastrand, Brooklyn.)

One day I was standing on the stern of our boat Flyer, :

polishing the brass railing. L was a sailor, and, as you

_ know, sailors have to do other things besides sailing all
day, and as I was not an exception to the rest, I, too, had
_ to help keep the boat tidy.

While I was thus still at work I Saw.a fat Dutchman;

in company with a skinny Irish fellow, come on board in .
‘search of the captain.
asked him for a job, and he got it without any references -
or anything,

When he found the captain he

for the captain knew the Dutchman well.
It was not so with the Irish fellow, who also asked for

a job, Lhe captain asked him if he could give any refer-

ences, atid he said, *
ones, tO." > @:
The captain then said:

‘Shure Mike, and some “moighty foine

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parten. «|
» > In the morning’ the came at gave the captain half a

dozen very good. references, and. the captain read them

fall and said to him: .
“These are very fine references, but they seem to be all:

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in the same handwriting.
“Shure; so dey is,” said the Irishman, “for I writ dem
all meself. Noman knows me better dan meself.”’

“Well; he: got the job.

- One day when he and the Dutchman were sw eeping the
-deck:a terrible storm arose.

‘The Trishman had so much
sense as to hold to a mast with one hand while he swept
with the other. The Dutchman kept On sweeping, just as
if there was no storm going on.

the Dutchman, broom ‘and all into the water, where they

references and now. he ran away with your broom.”
The next minute 1 ee a ey cannot tell any
about them. ee

: the w agon.
One of them

-qnad horses.
the trestle and the train came on the other side.

~ Well, men, ae the refer-
_ ence to me to-morrow morning.’ i f
oa the Irishman, and then he de-

“He stood still, but he -
did not do'so very long, for. a great wave came and took: ©

When it was all over the Irish-

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1 oe Horid Dream.
(By Bred: Rose, Mais:

One night, i i eamed that my father made me get up at

twelve o'clock and go with the hired boy to market.

We hitched up the wagon and started down the road,
and when we got to a place called Robbers’ Bend three
masked men “jumped _ out of the bushes and showed us
three: ugly looking pistols and commanded us to halt.

They told our fee boy to:dismount and. let me stay in
I thought that they tied him to a tree and
bound his hands behind him, and then. they caine over to

- me and searched. me, taking my money and watch.

‘Then one guarded us while. the: othe: r two.took their

_ knives and commenced sticking them in the hired boy's

- flesh.

They cut his arnis and head off, and then they
came over to me.

One of the robbers fred c pis sol ‘In my he Stace,
and they started oh a gallop down the road, with me in the
wagon, scared to death. They fired a volley of shots, but
none hit me.

Straight on toward the Seven Pines trestle went the
I tried.to stop them, but on they went, on

I could feel the hot steam in my face.

The engine struck the wagon and I felt a dull feeling.
Up in the air I rose, and: then like a cannon ball I came
-down through the air toward the rolling falls.

OW! what a feeling. I can never tell how 1 fell;
straight to the water r fell, landing on a tock with a dull
sound, and |. woke-up with a heart beating like a drum,
and scared to death.

I never like to go to bed, being afraid I will dream an-

‘other horrid dream.

A Western. Dream.
By Walter J. Phillips, Taunton, Macs).

‘T once dreamed that I lived out West with my ee
who owned aieattle ranch. The house was a strong ‘one,

as was the large barn, both of. which «were enclosed in a

stockade. I was a ood player on the cornet, and a dead
shot, There was a “tunnel in the cellar, which came out
near the foot of a large tree. It had’ been placed there so
that we might leave the house in case of an Indian attack.
Once the settlement heard of Indians coming from the
north, and as the entire population numbered but aay
souls, every one went to the blockhouse.

They brought all their cattle, which they put in the
stockade and made ready for a siege. Through a faithtur
Indian we found when the attack was to be made. I got
five of the young men to leave the settlement after dark
with myself, each with two horses and plenty of ammuni-
tion.

We rode to the south for ten miles, and then, spreading
our blankets, lay down to rest. We were up at midnight,
and each one carefully loading his weapons, mounted his -
horse and was to drive his other horse before him, as we

: thotight we could go faster in that way.

When we rode within a mile of the settlement; we :

halted, and as there was another bugler besides myself, |
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\We fens ste tarted. our Sia armies foeand back ou

ing a horse ahead of him, while in one hand we had a re-
volver. The two buglers were in advance, and we started
forward at a run as we heard the sound of firing. Near-
ing the settlement we began to blow our bugles, “while the
others wre yelling.
others yelling from different points, and bugles blowing,
When we arrived at the settlement we found not a live
Indian! They had, feared the cavalry! We were made
heroes of, arid the Congressman, who resided at the settle-
ment, promised me an “appointinent to West Point. ‘The

next day I called at his house and received the appoint-

ment.
| was a very happy boy as I went home, and just as I
went to show my appointment to my father I woke up!

A Dream of. Fire,
(By Frank Gates S. )

The other night I had a remarkable dream. I dreamed
that our house had caught on fire. I was lying in bed
when a cloud of smoke came into the room. J was almost
strangled, but | managed to stagger to my feet. I rushed
to: the. window, but was met by a cloud of flame and
smoke, so I knew that escape by that way was impossible.
The doorway was alr eady in flames. . I became very much
frightened; I did not know what to do. I was hemmed
in on all sides by smoke and fire.

could hardly stand up. Just then I heard a loud noise

and something struck me, and 1 awole to. find that Ia
fT 4m ot

had fallen out of ie and got d few brtises
liable to forget very soon the seare I got that night.

A Fighting Diesan
(By Emil Heppe, Milwaukee, Wis.)

had this dream in the month of March, 1899. Every
night we boys used to go to a place we called our hang
out. One night as I went over there the boys fooled
around with me:

boy. So 1 started to hit right and left, and when I woke
up that morning my fist was bleeding. - 1 said to my
mother, indsemian, “Mama, meine Faust blitet.” Then
she told'me that f was hitting against the wall.
true dréam.

“Huatins g the Gold Ghouls.

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‘By Robert Kittelson, Uncompahg te, Galo)”
I read No. 68 of the Buffalo Bill stories. One night
atterwaid-l had .adreani. *

1 went to Overland City and there went in ok Bawls

Biil’s. scouts to hunt the Gold Gh 1ouls, as | thought. 1
knew the country. 1 thought Buffalo Bill was core. -on
some business, and he told me to take charge of the fort
and. go ona hunt for the Gold Ghouls,
teen scouts ; ‘we came to elephant track and there beoan to
hunt for a trails. We did not find any trail,so 1 called
them to.come to me, as I stood under a cliff.. I told them
_ I was going to rope the tree that stood on the cliff.

THE BUFFALO BILL a ORIES,-

Doan the hill, we charged, the

I was so badly scared 1

IT didn’t like it, so I started to fight.
That night asi went to bed: | drean ned of fighting that

Uist a

Il went with fif-.

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to tie two ropes iggether as one , thirty five foot rope 1 was
not long enough. “I told one of the men to élimb to the
top of the cliff and see whether any trail could be found
there. He got to the top and was gone; back on the cliff

we did not see anything of him, so we all went up. On -
reaching the top a shot was fired from higher on the hill.

Looking up I saw a masked man. I fired a shot at him,
shooting him through the hip. He fell down to where we

_ were standing; we caught him, tying his hands and taking

his weapons. I told him to take us to the Gold Ghouls’
den or we would burn him slowly; and so two of the men

picked him up and went along the trail he told them to go.
We had not gone far when we found what he had shot at; ;
He was lying

it was the man I had sent onthe cliff first.
dead, the bullet had shot him through the head. We
buried him, and going on the Gold Ghoul led us to the
den, where we found them sitting about fires cooking their
suppers. We picked them all off and buried then. We

_took our blankets and slept in one big cabin, which they

had for a ‘fort, because the prisoner we had said the chief

would come early in the morning. Early in the morning
“we were aroused by a queer noise.
guns, and outside of the cabin we went.

We jumped for our
There we saw a
man on a horse. with a big horn in his hand. When he
saw us he turned his horse and was off on a fast run, but
a bullet from my forty-four was faster and caught him
through the head; he fell from his horse.

doctor’s care he became all right and joined the scouts.
ee Bill was oe with my work.

Confession of a Wordes in a Deca
(by Jack Hat “KaWwe-, ii. Aspinwall, Pa.)

A man, who worked in a brewery, quarreled with a fel-
low-workman and struck him in such a manner that it

‘killed him. No Pn as witness to the deed. He then
took the body and thrust it under a boiling vat, where it
“was soon consumed. ~ ° fae

On the following day, when the man was missed, ane

“murderer coolly observed that he had seen him intoxicated

and he had probably fallen oon some bridge and. been

drowned. ;
It was seven years after, and ae murderer ‘was em:
: ployed by the same brewery.

He slept with another workman, and one night in his
sieep the man heard the murderer say:
“It is now seven years ago,’ fae
“What did you do seven years ago?” asked his room-
mate.
“I put him,

to the person who was missed about that time, and he
gave information to a magistrate.
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- Containing the Only Stories Authorized by Hon. WILLIAM F. CODY ut _
48—Buffalo Bill’s Secret; or, The Trail of a Traitor. | G
_49—Buifalo Bill’s Phantom Hunt; or, The Gold Guide of Colorado Canyon.
50—Buffalo Bill’s Brother in Buckstin: or, [he Redskin Lariat Rangers.
51—Buffalo Bill’s Trail of the Man Tigers; or, The Doom of the Branded Hand,
52—Buffalo Bill’s Boy Pard; or, Training the Buckskin Boy. —

53—Bulfalo Bill’s Vow of Vengeance; cr, The Scout’s Boy Ally.

54—Butialo Bill and the Mad Hermit; or; Finding a Lost Trail.

55—Buffalo Bill’s Bonanza; or, The Clan of the Silver Circie.

56—Buffalo Bill’s Mascot; or The Mystery of Death Valley. oy

| 57—Bufialo Bill and the Surgeon Scout; or, The Brave Dumb Messenger.
58—Buffalo Bill’s Mysterious Trail; or, Tracking a Hidden Foe.
59—Buffalo Bill and the Masked Hussae: or, Fighting the Prairie Pirates.
60—Buffalo Bill’s Blind; or, A the Death Gauntlet.

61- —Buifalo Bill and the Masked D Driver: or. The Fatal Run Through Death
7 Canyon, 7

62—Buffalo Bill’s Still Hanes : or, Fighting the Robber of the Banees.
-63—Burfaio Bill and the Ked Riders; or, The Mad Driver of the Overlands,
64—Bufialo Bill’s Dead-Shot Pard; or, The Wiill-o’-the-Wisp of the Trails.

| 65—Sufialo Bill’s Run-Down; or, The Red-Hand Reao eae s Death.
—~66—Buffalo Bill's Red Traii; or, A Race'for Ranson.

| 67—Bufialo Bill’s Best Bower; or, Calling the Turn oa Death Notch Dick.
| 68—Bufiaio Bill and the Gold Ghouls; or, Defying Death at Elephant Rock.
| 69—Buifalo Bill's Spy Shadower; or, The Hermit of Grand Canyon. |

a S | 7O—Buffalo Bi i’s Secret Camp; or, Trailing the Cloven Hoofs.
one 71—Bufialo Bill’s Sweepstake; or, Hunting the Paradise Gold Mine.

72—Buffalo Bill and the Bee Heart Desperado; or, The Wipe- Cut at Vast
Chance.

73—Buffalo. Bills Death Chapa: ¢ or, Ehe Lady in Velvet. |

74—Buffalo Bill’s Desperate Strategy; or, The Mystery of the Cliff.

75—Buffalo Bill and the Black Mask; or, The Raffle of Death. —

| 76—Butfialo Bills Road Agent Round- Up; or, ae Pete’s Revenge.

 

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