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Lone Star, the Cowboy Captain, 15 near by, Lone Star packed the things found in the ruin upon some of them, and mounting the Indians, among whom was Nona, the peon woman, who decided to return with the Comanches to their vil- lage, the whole party set off for the re- turn. ere they reached the Rio Grande they heard the shouts of the cowboys fhe cattle across the river, an knew that Old Bitters and his party had been successful, and, upon arriving upon thé other bank, were met by a large party of seldiers just about to cross over and ress on to the rescue of Bessie. At their head rode Major Bainbridge, a handsome man of forty-five, and recog- nizing him, Bessie called out to him, and the tnt and daughter were again united, CHAPTER XXIV. CONCLUSION. Back to the fort went the troopers, and at the urgent request of Major Bainbridge the company of cowboys accompanied them, as did Black Panther and his braves, for the commandant promised to give them a grand blow-out. on their ar- rival, _ By the Comanches going was cemented a peace on the border that lasted as long as Major Bainbridge held command there, and at a wedding that took place some three months after the rescue of Bessie fromthe power of El Cobra, it was esti- mated that half of Black Panther’s vil- lage was there, while it was positively known that all the cowboys for a hun- dred miles around were present as invited guests. It is useless I suppose, kind reader, to say that those who were married on that oceasion were none other than Elegant Ed and Bessie Bainbridge, who are now residents of New York, having made the metropolis their home. * Old Bitters was made chief of scouts of. the fort, and I believe still holds that po- sition, and will until his death, for as he expressed it: ‘‘T are fixed heur ontil my toes turn up, when my chips is called in.” The cowboys of Texas are still charac- ters and stern necessities in the Lone Star State, and in fact in other States now, and among them are at dashing, noble fellows, with hearts as big as the cattle they herd. And Lone Star, the Cowboy Captain, what of him? He told who and what he was to Bessie, Edwin Eebert and the major, and how he had been in his early boyhood stolen from his home by Apaches, who had killed his parents, and burned their home, and he had never been able to find trace of them since. ‘ Hating the Apaches, and learning of an intended rad they purposed making against the Comanches, he made his escape, sought the wilioge of Black Pan- ther, and made known the coming of his The result was a grand victory for the Comanches, and tis -thalting 4 Darrell Dunstan, or Yellow Hair, as they called known to the reader, a boy chief, In the Comanche village dwelt a white priest, who for some reason had left his ple forever, and he had taught Darrell unstan most tly,.and on several occasions to Galveston and New Orleans to show him the sights, | But back to the Comanche camp they would go, and the youth had not cared to leave there as long as the old priest lived; but at last death took him away, and the boy had ambition to strike out for himself. The priest had left him some money and a few precious stones, which he had set in a star of gold, and with the money he had bought some cattle, and estab- a himself upon a ranch as a ran- chero. His life among the Indians had made him a little wild, yet it had inured him to all kinds of hardships and made him an expert in the use of all kinds of wea- pons. ms As he was anxious to distinguish him- self, he had formed the intention of hunt- ing down El Cobra and his robbers of the Rio Grande, and for that purpose had sought out the cowboys. And his success in Brenig up the rob- ber band, and killing the dreaded chief, who, as a ranchero, had lived in the midst of the people he robbed, gained for him, through the influence of Major Bainbridge, a cadetship at West Point where he graduated first in his class, and is now a gallant officer stationed upon the far frontier, and known to but very few as the one-time Lone Star, the Cow- boy Captain. THE END. 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