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16 “To the death, of course, Midnight!” was the rejoinder. ‘‘ You’re struck! Your blood spurted elean into my face.” “But it never leaped from my heart!” ‘‘Oho! well, I’ll tap that fountain!” ‘‘Tf you can, Golden.” The last word had scarcely left the road- agent’s lips when he threw his antagonist half- way round and his knife hand struck the stone- wall peavily. A ery told him what had befallen George. His knife, too, was gone! The foes now grappled. In that eat ho gloom they went down to rise again, and fight with the weapons which Nature had given them. “Now against the walls, now in the middle of the cave, now up, now down, they fought—to the death! Once they paused for breath, standing erect like gladiators, the hand of each at the throat of the other; then at it again. But this could not always last. Midnight suddenly wrenched his foe from him; he flung him away and fell to the ground himself. As he did so something slid from un- der his feet—Golden’s lost knife. With a cry which he could not suppress, Mid- ight seized the weapon, and listened. Beyond Fy dull thud that had followed his last success, he heard nothing of the Sport. Many moments, knife in hand, the road-agent waited for arenewal of the combat; but itcame not. At last he called the name of his foe; si- lence, as before! “Tm armed; all the advantage is with me!” he said, to himself. ‘Golden struck the wall. Ma ” He said no more but began to circumnavi- ate the cavern, his hand on the wall to guide im. All at once he stopped and sprung back, his hand had touched the Sport’s flesh. “Tm going to pass in my checks, Mid- night,” said a voice, in the pom “You've got my knife. I know it; but you needn’t use it. There’s nothing left o my head; ou threw me plump against the wall. M fast dust is on the table, and death holds a ——— the trumps. Midnight, I didn’t get to do tt; no, I cannot keep my word! Your sister is in the canyon. Follow the bed westward to the trified trunk of atree. The cave is there. I eft her safe. I was going to see if Nugget Noll was at the Agency. Didn’t want to meet him, ou know. Midnight, this tussle has been to he death. Where are you?” ‘‘ Here, Golden,” and the victor crept for- ward till he bent over his foe—till he clasped the hand of the dying man. “Did you tell Dora that—” ‘‘No, I didn’t,” was the interruption; “ but she more than half suspects. That girl has come away out here to make a man of you. Your father is dying: he wants you back. ou ought to hear her tell how he took back the curse of exile; how—” ; “Stop, Golden! let me think a moment. [ am going back. I almost wish we hadn’t met ’ ‘“No! that’s not the way to talk. We were born to fi ht right here—that’s my doctrine. You needn’t tell the boys how I died. Let ’em think that I just disappeared. [Vm going to uit talking now. Death has clutched Golden rge’s last stakes. I—throw—down the— ” idnight Jack knew what was coming; he felt a shiver run through the hand he held. The deathgurgle broke the silence of the scene, and the fingers of Golden George, the Sport, fell from the road-agent’s hand. All was over! ‘“ A man of his word!” said Midnight, rising. ‘He found his own tomb, and died in it. Good- by, Golden! I believe your doctrine, too. We were bound to fight to the death!” : The road-agent now turned his attention to escape from the cavern; and all at once he heard a human voice. “This must be the place! Stay behind! Ill drop into the hole, fur the Screamin’ Eagle of the Smoky Roost hes been in dark holes a ore!” Midnight Jack uttered a cry of delight, and the next instant the friends met. “Look to the north, Dora. Up yonder is Sioux-land. Would you go back there?” ‘Yes, to find the brother I have sought. Jack, if they had killed me—” “J would not be here within sight of Fort Sully. What did I write on the wagon which | loaded with dead Indians?—that I would exter- minate the Sioux nation! But you live, Dora. I thank heaven I had not your death to avenge!” Midnight Jack. “Tt is good-by to the road now?” ‘* No! it is farewell forever !” ; When Midnight Jack rode boldly into Fort Sully, he was at once put under arrest by the commandant. But asweet face and a sweeter voice pleaded for his release, and Midnight dar- ed the colonel to point to one loyal citizen whom he had plundered. Then came the story of the father’s curse—the exile — the stirring scenes which we have witnessed in the course of this narrative, and—the release. The shout was now, ‘‘ Eastward ho!” Gopher Gid—or Gideon Weston as the boy’s true name was—looked into the hill home again and bade it farewell. A pair of eyes had more fascination for him than that little hermitage, and he made one of the East-bound party. Time has rolled on. The soldier father is dead; the exile is a prosperous man far from the golden coast; and the little trapper’s love has guse Doce rewarded by the bestowal of a woman’s nand. Rube Rattler—he is back on the frontier where he tells with gusto how he hung for six hours in the sun-dance, by fastening the torture cords to straps beneath the old cavalry jacket! He took the widow McGee, ‘‘ dow’ry ” and all. THE END. 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