Sunset Ranch: A Story of a Boy's Adventures in the West — page 153: what you’re looking at

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An Indian Brave. 141 was one of them, having been solemnly taken into the tribe with great ceremony. And so the days glided by, without a sign from Karl and the reckless cowboys of Sunset Ranch, making Cuthbert imagine that if he ever hoped to be free again it must come through his own exer- tions. Thus he came face to face with the hour when, as fate decreed, he should learn the true reason of his strange abduction—perhaps it would hurt his con- ceit somewhat, but at the same time the knowledge must act as a spur upon his resolution to give his new Sioux comrades the slip and take French leave between the setting and the rising of the sun. COMGIOO S C©