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92 JOSE. possible and keep your eyes open as if you were in an enemy’s country.” He nodded at the wagon-boss and disappeared among the shrubbery. Green beckoned to Baumann and the wagon-boss and slowly passed out of ear-shot of the crew. “What is your opinion of the visitor?” he asked, when they finally paused. “T can only repeat what I said before,” replied the wagon-boss; “I don’t trust the bird in spite of his honest looks. What is he doing here so far from the fort, if he isn’t a spy? The whites that live among the Indians are by far the worst, and a man that’s half blind can tell that he’s lived among ’em along time. Travel by night, indeed! That would be the best way in the world to give the redskins a chance to sneak in upon us unobserved; that is pro- viding there’s really any danger, as he says.” “ And what is your advice?” “Well, sir, we must keep right on—there’s no help for it. Our provisions may last several days beyond Fort Atkinson but must be replenished there; and all we can do now is to prepare ourselves for any emergency. Wemust form the train into lines so as to reduce its length one half that the men may better assist one another and the wagons be drawn more quickly into a square; but I think if the fort which, with its canvas tents, can hardly weather a storm, is still holding out, and the company of soldiers is still living in it, our danger is not so great as we imagine.” “My advice, Mr. Wood,” said Green, after a short. reflection; “is, that you call the men together and give them a faithful account of the state of affairs. Eomichookssco