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82 BLACK ARROW} THE AVENGER. “ Wait till wé reach our journey’s end. Do not.ask ms to promise any thing until I have a chance of learning something definite about him. I know you are too. generous, Jolin; to press me in this matternow. Hark! my mother is ening me, and it is getting late.” “I won't bother you any more, Miriam. PCLT Si the wagons. The more I think about this camping-place, the more I don’t 'like it. I have a great mind. to change it, and let them laugh at me as they will.” Not seeing Bell Sparks about the camp when he toturned, John Wilson inquired what had become of him, and was told that he had gone away as soon as the camp was located. “ We pressed him to have supper with us, and to stay all night,” said Bulkley; “but he told us that he had a hunting partner waiting /for him down: the river, and must go to meet him, or his comrade would give him up for dead: _So he mounted his mustang, and rode away in a hurry.” Such a proceeding seemed rather strange to Wilson, and he expressed his thoughts.. The man had had time enough to drink with them, to help them across the river, and to argue half an hour about a camping-place, and it was strange if he could not stay a little longer. Wilson went on to inform his friends that’he did not at all like to camp im the river bottom. The more he thought of it, the more he disliked jena he wanted them to change the location. There was some grumbling and dissatisfaction at this request, but Wilson was the leader of the party, and was accustomed to have his own way, and the stranger who had laughed at danger was no longer there. enin “There is danger everywhere,” said Wilson. “ We will never lose any thing by being too particular; but we may lose every thing by not being particular enough. We have always picked a safe place to camp, and there is no reason why we should break our rule now. As we are getting near the end of our journey, we ought to bemore careful than ever. It would zo hard with us to cross the ocean, and ‘be wrecked in sight of port. There may be no Indians within fifty miles of us; but I knew of a field in Mississippi that no stray cattle ever came near during a whole season, until a gap was left in the fence one night, and the next morning there were a dozen connicldooks.conn