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14 Crimson Kate, the G irl Trailer. rr ES ee pany strike for yonder medicine tepee, for it is Tt had been the intention of Lester Langdon ‘‘You then are Loyd Langdon: I thought ‘ the largest, and rescue Langdon. not to lose sight of Crimson Kate; but she had | you were dead, as I never heard of you after “a ** Charge!” as before, most mysteriously disappeared, and | your escape.” : - A wild cheer answered the ringing command | no one could tell whither she had gone. “Yes, Iam your cousin, and I am not dead, ; ¥ of Rollo Willoughby, and down upon the In- Having saved the train, the young captain | but soon will be. . . dian camp they rushed, acted as an escort for it on to the line of posts, | ‘‘When I could not live among pale-faces, I There were wild screams of frightened wo- | and at last returned to Fort Advance to find | sought a home with red-skins, and became men and children, shouts of defiance from | Colonel Willoughby preparing for a forced | their chief. brave warriors, war-whoops, stern orders in | march. “Knowing that you sought my daughter, te English and Comanche tongues, the thunder- ‘Come, Lester, you’re back just in time, if | carry out your pledge to her mother, made as ing of iron hoofs, rattling of sabers and spurs, | you are not too tired, for I have heard of your | Old Hickory, I went after her, and I brought shots, clashing of steel, and flashes of fire-arms | gallant charge, and how you saved the train, | ber here, and had it not been for this attack, to light up tne scene, and make ijt one wild! and you may be broken down,” said the | she would soon have become the wife of Red inferno upon earth. colonel, Liger, the young Apache chief.” For half an hour the flerce combat lasted, ‘‘ Not a bit of it, sir; but may I ask how you ‘Ah, man! man! of what are you mauve?” : and then the troopers rallied together, for | heard of it?” groaned Lester Langdon, while Crimson Kate those of the Indians who could escape, had fled ‘‘ Through Crimson Kate.” had buried her face in her hands. to the nearest hills, leaving their village in “The Girl Trailer?” Unheeding his remark, the renegade chief flames and all in the hands of the pale. faces. “None other; she is with Lilian now, and | continued: Many brave warriors lay about dead, and a | has come to lead me to the camp of Coyote the ‘With death so near [I am not as bitter few women and children ridden down, or shot, | Comanche, who is: plotting a grand raid upon | now, and would not care to seo her dragged in the confusion of battle, so that the red-skins | the settlements, and is assembling all his war- | down to become a red-skin’s wife, though she bad been dealt a severe lesson; but*then a | riors. ” has never loved me, so you can keep your score or more brave troopers had met a sol- ‘‘Get your men mounted on fresh horses, | pledge, if so you are inclined.” dier’s fate, yet their comrades, elated at thoir | and come, for I intend to take every man not “Shoe shall be as a sister to me; yes, Kate, victory, were making the hills echo and re-echo | necessary to the defense of the fort, and end | you are my cousin, and I pledged my word to with their cheers, which were answered by | this Indian raiding.” your dying mother to care for and protect distant shouts of defiance and hatred from the Lester Langdon was only too anxious to | you,” and the young officer drew the maiden flying braves, retreating into the mountain | obey, and gettirg a fresh mount he joined the | toward him. fastnesses where they knew they were safe | colonel and Crimson Kate as they were leaving But her face still remained buried in her from pursuit. the fort. hands, and she uttered no word, and again the But the greatest victory to Rollo Willoughby As before the Girl Trailer led the command | renegade spoke; was the rescue of his favorite, Lester Langdon, | unerringly; though the trail was a long one, and ‘Forgive me, Kate, if you can.” whom Lieutenant Haddock had found bound | went into the very fastnesses of the mountains, ‘‘Dying, I forgive you; if you lived I never hand and foot in the medicine lodge. Just at dawn she showed the village to the | would do so,” was the firm response, But, upon the ride back to the fort, when | colonel, and down upon the unsuspecting red- * Dying, I am forgiven then; so be it; I ask told to whom he owed his rescue, he seemed sur- | skins the troopers charged. no more, prised, and said he had never heard of the ex- And at once the fight became fierce and ‘May you be happy, and I know that you istence of Crimson Kate, until told by Mocca- | deadly, for the warriors fought with despera- | will. sin Mike of her warning to him a few nights | tion, headed by their great chief Coyote the “ Farewell.” before, Comanche. He closed his eyes, as if to shut out the view But at last the red skins broke in wild Hight, | around him, clasped his hands upon his breast, CHAPTER XXV. | fled to the canyons for safety, and the victory | and thus remained until he died, refusing tr THE BITTER END, was won, and Colonel Willoughby held the | utter another word, and giving no groan, al. As Lester Langdon was wounded, he was | village, and taking possession of the chief’s | though he suffered untold agonies, compelled to keep his quarters for some weeks | tepee, gave orders to look after the wounded, and remain under the surgeon’s care; but he | and that the command would camp there fo ’ seemed to fret greatly under the restraint, and | several days. ; CONCLUSION. when at last able to be in the saddle, instead “T has got him, col’nell, and the soger Pards In the mountains where he fell the Renegade of learning wisdom from his past experience, | is fetchin’,” cried Moccasin Mike, rushing up, | Chief, Coyote, the Comanche, but known to he started out one morning alone on a scout, ‘Got who, Mike?” the reader in the past as Loyd Langdon, was He was gove for several days and returned ‘The Coyote.” quietly buried. with a look of disappointment upon his face. ‘¢ What! the Comanche chief?” And then loaded down with their wounded, One night, soon after, as he was about to| ‘Yas, col’nell, an’ he are Comanche only in | 8"4 the spoils of the Indian village, the troopers make a reconnojssance with his company of | name, fer he hev a white skin.” took up their march back to the fort. scouts, into the plaza of the fort rode Crimson “Ha! a renegade?” It was a glad surprise to Lilian Willoughby Kate, the Girl Trapper, as all the soldiers now | “True as preachin’, col’nell; and ther gal is | t© see Kate Langdon, and warmly into her called her. comin’ too.” heart and home she welcomed her. She made no reference to her former service, | ‘ What girl?” Fora short while the young girl seemed im- or her mysteriots disappearance the night of “The Crimson gal, ther Trailer, sir; she | Pressed with all she had gone through, but at the attack on the Indian village, nor would | saw him fall when I raised my shooter, en’ she | ast the remembrance of her cruel father wore she speak of herself, and said she only came to | jist come a-humpin’ it, av’ I’m thinkin’— | way, and she consented, at the earnest solici- state that a Government train was coming on | But heur they is.” tation of Lester Langdon, to go to his home and the upper trail, and that the Indians were mak- | Just then four soldiers came up, bearing on | &2848¢ & governess, under whom to prosecute ing arrangements to attack it at a certain point. | poles a prostrate form, and by their side walked her studies for a couple of years. She also stated that the train numbered some | Crimson Kate, the Girl Trailer, her face pale | _ Mrs. Willoughby volunteered to accompany fifty fighting men, and that the Indians would | and sad. her, and a month after their departure, the q attack with five times that force, and she| ‘Lay bim there, men; well, sir, you have | ©olonel and Lester received letters telling therm couid lead a hundred troopers upon them when | been wounded I see?” and the colonel addressed | Of kbeir settling down in Langdon Hall, and of they rode down upon the camp. the chief, who was in full war-paint and In- | Kate’s having begun work under her gover- Golqnel Willoughby at once ordered Captain | dian costume, but whose neck and hands were | 2°68, who was a most estimavle and accom- ; ae Langdon to take his company of seventy-five | white, plished lady. zn a 1 scouts and follow the girl, telling her that that “Yes, I’ve got my death wound, and reached For ashort vacation in the winter, as Mrs 4 number of bordermen were worth treble as | theendof my rope at last, Colonel Willoughby,” | Willoughby was coming back to join her bus- many soldiers, and they weuld render a good | was the answer. band, Kate and the governess accompanied account of themselves, “Who are you?” her, and it was in riding over the prairies one Away started the scouts, the Girl Trailez and | ‘Ask that girl!” day together that ester Langdon told his love the young captain riding side by side, and as| ‘My father,” was the low response of | to the lovely maiden, and heard in return that she had promised she led them to where they | Crimson Kate, as the eyes of all sought her | she had loved him from their first meeting. struck a large and fresh Indian trail; following | face. Kate and the. governess did mot .return as it they moved quickly on and soon heard shots| ‘Your father?’ cried Lester Langdon | 800m as they bad expected, and when they did in advance. earnestly, the maiden went back as Mrs, Lester Lang- A few moments after they came insightof| ‘ Yes.” don, having been married to her cousin by the ® train st wagons, hastily sorraled for action, | ‘Your name, sir?’ said the colonel, fort chaplain... . and large numbers of Indians charging down | Coyote the Comanche it has been the past | And resigning his commission, as the affairs upon it. six years that I have been making it hot for | Of his estate needed his care, Lester Langdon Instantly, wi'*. their wild yells the scouts | your troopers, Colonel Willoughby; but in the | settled down at Langdon Hall, and to this day charged the rea-sxins, who, wholly surprised, | olden time it was Loyd Langdox.” bas never had regret that he was at one times and caught between two fires, broke in wild | ‘Good God!” Texas Cowboy, for by i begaiied: his pemme Fe ‘y confusion and fied, leaving a number of war-| The cry came from the lips of both the colo- ful wife, Crimson Kate, the Girl Trailer. ciors aad ponies dead upon the field, nel and Lester Langdon, and the latter saide ‘THE END. a j ’ , ‘ . a \ j ) se, j : ; > xe = be _ me : comicbooks.com