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268 JOSE. recently taken place seemed to come back to his memory. “Has nothing been seen of Bob?” he asked, after a pause. : “He is happy over the finding of his niece,” the other replied, lying down in the grass, “hence I think our wild journeys have come to a happy end. You, too, have found what you sought. I have indeed no cause to complain of a lack of adven- tures, though doubtless I shall return as I started, with a void in my heart. Bill has said farewell; I wager he is better provided for than any of us.” “He was a true-hearted fellow, and I wish I might have rewarded his fidelity,” replied Green, slowly raising his head. “I saw him fall beneath a toma- ' hawk as recklessly he forced his horse between me and a giant Indian, and but for his intervention I certainly should now be lying where he lies, instead of sitting here with a trifling flesh wound.” Baumann shrugged his shoulders. “His troubles are over, while we shall have to let the future bring forth what affliction it has for us,” he said; “life seems never to have been so worthless and hopeless as now, when thinking of my homeward journey and the future.” He looked up the trail where several riders were at that moment detaching themselves from the crowd and speeding at a brisk gallop in the direc- tion of the fort; soon after Bob appeared, approach- ing the friends with long strides. “The oddest little creature,” he said, his counte- nance beaming with suppressed joy; “yonder she stands giving orders like a soldier; I have been ap- pointed general by her in case there should be more trouble with the Indians, and despite this entire sad Eomichooks (E(0) m