The Prairie Detective: Secret Service Series No. 24 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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THE PRAIRIE DETECTIVE. 25 CHAPTER III. STRIKING THE SCENT. The detective stopped but an hour in Chicago, and that only to talk with an old friend who had for- merly been a frontiersman. When the two sepa- rated, Dan had a second valise to carry. In twenty- four hours he landed at Kansas City, Missouri, on the banks of the ‘“‘Big Muddy.’”’ There he climbed the hill to the hotel, where he registered as ‘‘Syca- more Dan’’ from Ohio. He went immediately to his room, opened his new valise, and spread the contents upon his bed. After that he divested himself of his outer clothing, and prepared to rehabilitate himself. With that end in view he selected from the articles he had already placed upon the couch a rough woolen shirt, buckskin pantaloons, leggins, mocas- sins, and coat, and a broad-brimmed felt hat, bound about the crown with a heavy strip of wild-cat fur. A claw taken from the same animal dangled over the rim behind. He then fished up from the bottom of the bag an old leather belt, attached to which were two heavy holsters containing each a Colt’s revolver of the largest size. Between them, also fastened to the strap, was a heavy bowie-knife and a box for ecar- tridges. No time was lost in putting on this belt, after which Dan Burdette, in his new disguise, viewed himself complacently in the cracked mirror which hung against the wall. Eomicbooks (elo)