Beadle's Dime Novels No. 231: The Texan Trailer — page 49: what you’re looking at

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- ae ~ . x | : Crockett, led by some indefinable impulse, snatched up the 3 bear-skin, and with it over bis arm, sprung down from among e rocks into the woods below. “We must take the trail,” he adJed to the Texan, who had already discovered it on the ground, and answered : “Tuere it is, leading toward the creek, She has gone there to bathe herself.” A few moments sufficed to take them to the spot, where she had spent a half-hour or so, early in the morning, and then they observed the circuitous route. baek again, which suggested that she had discovered or was sceking to avoid some danger. Prec There was no difficulty in tracing the footsteps to the point where the Comanche bear had seized and borne her away, e prints on the ground perplexed them for a few minutes. “They were made by an Indian without a doubt,” said the Texan. : _ “ And that Indian,” said ,Crockett, ‘“was the bear that we saw last night on t’vther side of the creek.” “ That's it! that’s it!’ fairly gasped young Cuarsfield; “it’s tlieir old tricks over again. He can’t be far, away anyhow, and we will run him into the ground before he can reach his; confederates. The Tennesse¢an was satisfied that this was the true course, and the two started forward at once, the. trail.over the dead and rumpled | leaves being such that.it was easily followed. F =. He is running. very fast,” added Sebastian, when they had ie tberesseil something like a hundred yards. upon their way. “ But he can’t carry the gul ‘and outrun us besides.” - # He'll make her do her own running after awhile.” “ Is she good on the jump?” inquired Crockett. “ She runs very swiftly,” said the lover, “and you may be sure that dog will make her do her best.” . “Tt strikes me that them varmints are tryin’ to take prison- ers, instead vf raisin’ the ha’r of the setilers through these _* That’s it,” was the reply, uttered on the run, ~ Such indeed seemed. to be the case, when the past. eplionn ot the Comanches were considered, for; it. can be seen that more than once they had it in their power to pick off the “ E- | Comicbooksc com”