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156 | ROCKY MOUNTAIN SAM. you give it to em hot an’ heavy? It’s almost daylight, or quite so, and they’re afraid of us.” | ~ They all took pattern from this speech—old Max with the rest—and the next time Sam sung out, ‘‘Here comes the ram; look out!’ the four rifles spoke almost simultaneously, and dropping the log, the savages fled out of range and were soon out of sight. “Come!” said the professor, after satisfying himself that the savages who had escaped would not be likely to return, “let us hasten back to the house and make ready for our voyage. ‘Teddy, I am determined that you shall accompany Sam and-me, and we shall also have to make Big Horn our passenger until we can communicate with Lieutenant Dut- _ ton and his party.” After a hasty breakfast, and the completion of a few more preparations, the balloon—this time the largest one—was successfully inflated, and the aeronauts set out upon their voyage. . It being the first ascent ever made by-Big Horn, that hero remained long at the side of the car, gazing over and below in mingled admiration and alarm. The air-ship made rapid headway, the wind being favor- able, and soon the professor could distinguish Colonel Chap- man’s ranch. : ‘“We are now passing over the ranch,” he said, lowering his glass; ‘‘ay, and they're looking up to us. In two hours at the farthest we ought to overtake Dutton’s party in the neighborhood of Cadott’s Pass.” ‘The professor was correct in his calculations. Ere the time indicated had elapsed the balloon began to sweep over the jagged peaks that constituted Cadott’s Pass and ren- dered it so prominent above the surrounding plains, that he cried out: ® “There they are! And, what?” excitedly; “‘they’re al- ready engaged with the Indians in force. That shrewd devil, Firefoot, must have left a body there on purpose to intercept them in their pursuit.” : All hands were at the side of the’car in an instant. Far, far below they could see the combatants, like specks upou the plain, and descending to within a mile or so of the ground they could see that the hunters had intrenched themselves among the rocks, where they were beset and almost surrounded by a horde of one or two hundred sav- a Siete comicbooks. co