Beadle's Dime Novels No. 231: The Texan Trailer — page 19: what you’re looking at

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iY PUZZLED. 29 All through the tumultuous excitement Crockett had clung to his bear-skin with almost the tenacity that he grasped his rifle. He had done it almost unconsciously, even after his cap was swept from his head. He was on the point of starting ahead again when his quick ear detected something suspicious. The sound was very slight, but such as it was, it convinced him that there was some one coming along the path. Not knowing what it meant, the hunter drew his horse aside out of the path, and then waited and watched. The obscurity was so great that he could not see very distinctly, but in the gloom he discovered two men, who passed by on a a rapid run. He could see that they were Indians, and that they were moving very fast. | What struck Crockett as singular was that these red-skins were pursuing the opposite direction from him. LEither they must have passed by the rendezvous toward which he was hurrying, or they had gone dangerously near it. “ What does it mean?” the Tennessean asked himself, be- pomng to feel a little puzzled at the action of the red- skins ; “ these are queer critters—these Comanches—they don’t do business like the Creeks and Choctaws. Now, how did them two rapscallions get round on t’other side of me? They couldn’t lave passed me in the path, for I was riding too blamed fast.” He returned to the path again, and, as his horse walked along, he thought seriously upon the situation of himself and friends. Suddenly he started. Could it be that there was another band of Comanches on the other side of Hans Bungslager’s cabin? Or were these scouts who were scouring through the country in search of victims, and having discovered the flight of the fugitives, had they made all haste to the main body that the whites might be cut off before there was a chance of escape ? The more he reflected upon what he had seen, the more serious alarm did he feel. It was not for himself that he feared, but it looked to him as though the gentle Katrina Duncan was in greater danger than she or her friends imagined. Comicbooks.com ; <