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84 JOSE. threatened to overpower him, and after a pause observed: “Well, sir, I give it up! The wagon-boss has been saying something about suspicious characters, but I’ll leave it to you if the boy wouldn’t have stolen a horse, or something, if he wasn’t square.” “But what can have become of him if he went away of his own accord?” “Don’t know, sir; been trying to make it out myself. Very few have ever tried to cross the plains alone, and them that have won’t undertake it a second time.” | Green dropped his head, and the conversation was at an end; but from that time on a peculiar friend- ship existed between the two. That same night the young man camped in the open air, very near to the old driver. This he did for several nights in suc- cession. Baumann, with a dubious shake of the head, abandoned his friend to his whims without comment. He had resolved in the beginning not to force himself into Green’s confidence, and although the latter’s strange way of relieving himself of his society, offended him at first, he nevertheless let the matter pass without any sign of feeling and spent most of his time at the head of the train. Often he gave himself up to fanciful dreams of his lost love or ideal, and imagined that the finding of the precious trinket was an omen of future hap- piness. An exciting adventure with buffaloes soon occu- pied the attention of all. | When Green was urged by Baumann to take part in the sport, he said: “T have had quite enough of that business this trip, and though the brutes allow themselves to be (E(O) Eomicbooks