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86 JOSE. — bery gilded by the setting sun, when Green joined him for the first time in many days. “We shall certainly reach Fort Atkinson in five or six days, and there doubtless learn something in regard to the passengers of the lost stage-coach and the owner of your bracelet,” he said, walking by the German’s side. “I’ll keep my promise.” Baumann, at this moment, was thinking less of his own love affair than of the strange expression of trouble that had fixed itself upon Green’s face in the last few days, and which forced itself into notice in spite of the smile that accompanied his words. | “T wish I could in return say something to you that would restore your old spirits!” said the Ger- man, while a slight flush suddenly rose in Green’s face. “Never mind; they will return in due time,” he said, gazing into the distance. “Though I may ap- pear foolish to you now, you’ll learn better by and by. But, asl was going to say, lam beginning to think that our fear of the Indians is all nonsense, or, if there was any cause for it before, it had long since disappeared, and the tribes were either on a buffalo hunt or on the war-path in the far West. We should otherwise have seen something of them long ago in the course of our journey. Now that we are going straight in the direction of the fort, there is less cause to be alarmed than ever——” He paused abruptly and stood still. Baumann looked up and soon discovered the cause of the - interruption. Forty or fifty feet before them, as if suddenly risen out of the ground, stood a man of gigantic proportions, dressed in a strange combination of Gomichbooks (E(0) m