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JOSE. | 83 CHAPTER VI. ALONG THE ARKANSAS. The succeeding days were to Baumann full of wearisome monotony. Green, since the disappear- ance of the Mexican boy, seemed to have undergone a complete change; riding for hours together at the head of the train, staring fixedly across the grassy expanse and replying to the German either with a smile that sufficiently indicated his thoughts to be roaming far away, or, perchance, dropping some casual remarks whose tone and character amply suggested to the refined Baumann the impropricty of plying his friend with further questions regard- ing his altered mood. Dutch Bill formed a striking companion-piece to Green, in that, the disappear- ance of Jose, seemed to have extinguished too in him every rising inclination of his natural humor. When the fruitless efforts to find the Mexican were announced, he obediently led off with the leading team without a word, but from thence on, his animals were more than commonly made to feel the energy of his whip. His piercing eyes all day long searched the boundless prairie, sharply scru- - tinizing each distant object, while at the camp-fires at night Bill morosely rejected all approaches toa conversation. When Green, who seemed purposely to avoid the confidence of Baumann, sat down be- side him and faintly asked, “What do you think of this affair, Bill?” the latter twisted his face intoa orimace as if struggling with an emotion that Gomicbooks (E(0)