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150 ROCKY MOUNTAIN SAM. jawin’ ’em like a trump, an’ poor Dennis was stretched out as dead as a pincushion, with four or five arrers stickin in him, an’ his hoss lyin’ near him, likewise stuck full. You know none of us was armed, havin’ shed our traps afore startin’, an’ I don’t know as I’d a made much of a stan’ anyways, I was so tuck by surprise. But afore I could rein in, I got this shot in my shoulder, an’ then turned an’ run, though I didn’t know the hoss was hit till Iovertook Jack here, and then began to feel a little down-hearted. Gentle- men, I is got no mere fur to say.” “Come rightinto the ranch an’ have your wound dressed,” said the colonel, and as they moved away together the greatest bustle took the place of the apathy which at first seemed to have fallen upon all. CHAPTER XXI. THE HERMIT’S HUT. Fortunately there were enough horses got together in the distant paddock to remount the entire force of hunters and soldiers that were to go to the rescue of the captives. Scarcely an hour after the announcement of the disastrous termination of the race, a force of about forty mounted men. under the command of Lieutenant Dutton, and twenty-five cavalry men, under the same sergeant who brought them from Fort Benton to Miry Fork, were on the march, and Rocky Mountain Sam, old Max, and Teddy McGuire—the latter lying peacefully inebriated in the bottom of the car—were sailing back to the White Hermit’s canon, after promising to put themselves in communication with the horsemen at daybreak on the following morning. This arrangement left the original detachment of twenty men at the ranch, at which, after much entreaty, Colonel Chapman was also persuaded to remain, together with Miss Yearning and the servants. ‘he lady mentioned, though likely enough sincerely shocked at learning of the second captivity of her niece, was so delighted that her bondage was to be shared by Fayaway as hardly to be able to hide her feelings. | The last farewells had been said, the last hand-grasp taken, and the old gentleman stood with his sister-in-law comicbooks €Ol