Beadle's Half Dime Library No. 942 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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— —a > - _ Lt oO — oe ee > -* . = ¥ ie aca ‘Buffalo Bill's Tough Tussle. 13 ee ee a <i “Do you know it made me almost “T fear you are not Siaeohae very well, | with the horse of the young. chief, Blue , Gree ys "choke when I saw those ladies and the | Don.” Mark, in lead, set out upon his trail back 4 little girl, for I seemed to see my mother | “Oh, yes; I'm all right, for if you were | to camp, Don going with him as far as eae again,” not there I’d be lonesome. the bars, and seeing him start upon his ies “Poor boy, and you will find Mrs. “Once or twice when [f heard you] way with a look of regret in his sad on Doan willing to treat you most kindly, | breathing I almost thought father’ was | young face, as though he was losing an- for she is a noble woman, while I well | there and not in his grave.” other good friend. oe know how the colonel feels toward you The pathos of the words and tone oor * after all you have done for him, his com-| touched Buffalo Bill, and he talked CHAPTER XXIII. Ba mand and those he loved. cheerily to the boy for quite a while, and IN CLOSE QUARTERS. y “ Yes, you must return with me to the | then the two went to sleep. | Buffalo Bill rode on his way, now ce at fort, Don.” In the morning, after breakfast, Don | mounted upon his own horse, and leading ae ie “Not now.” was heart and soul in the idea of catch-}] the Indian pony, on which were the Lat “Why not now?” ing Indian Dick. weapons of the young chief and his war- ti “Well, we've got to trap Indian Dick, He suggested to Buffalo Bill that he | bonnet. RS you know.” Should go to the Sioux village, disguised He had much food for thought as he z ! “Ah yes; but I wonder what became of | as a redskin, and bring the renegade kept along the trail, for he had found in i. ‘him, for his horse was killed and the men | back with him. the young hermit a firm friend, and his % a found his trappings, but he had disap- “But they will kill you, Don,” said the friendship he intended to cultivate all in fi ' peared.” scout. his power. z “He has gone back to the village.” “They won't know me.” The Boy Hermit had shown him two “Do you know this?” ‘How can you prevent it?” well drawn maps of the eountry around “Yes, for he was here this morning.” “Well, you see, father called me half | his cabin home for sixty miles. “That man was here this morning? Injun, because I could paint up and ap- One was drawn by the old hermit, the rae *T thought you were foes.” pear just like one, and I speak the Sioux | other by himself, and when the youth tobe “We are, but he was a friend of my | tongue just as well as they do. had gone over both with the scout, ex- (a father’s, and came here on foot for a “They have a big village, and it is plaining many things, it gave Buffalo aw horse and some food. scattered through a large valley up in | Bill an idea of the lay of the land and ee “I told him father had been wounded, | the mountains. and I know it well. the trails it would have taken months to was asleep, and I would not disturb him, “ Indian Dick's tepee stands apart from go over and learn as well. So gave him a pony and some provisions | the others, and I can go there at night. He told him, too, where the Indian vil- ‘ and let him go.” awaken him if he is asleep, and tell him lages were located. the strength of each, “Why did you not capture him?" al- | my father wishes to talk with him about the approaches, hunting grounds, and most suspiciously asked. Buffalo Bill. his plot to entrap the soldiers, and for much else the scout was glad to learn. ue > ~ What would I have done with him? him and.the renegade chief Thunder There was a much nearer trail to the ey “No, I let him go, but as he spoke of | Voice to come to the cabin here, but to camp of Lieutenant Lowery than the one getting father to help him in a plot to | come as Indians, and that will make them Buffalo Bill knew, and which the Pinto _ trap the soldiers and kill them, I let him | paint up, you know. pony had been the guide over, but the talk, and thought I'd trap him. so told “Til come back ahead of them, and you Boy Hermit had told the scout he would him I would let him know when father | are to be here to catch them.” find great difficulty in going that way Was well enough, and I will, and you can “It is a splendid plan, Don, if you are | until he had been shown over it, so he ns catch him.” sure you will not get into trouble.” stuck to the one through the lava valley. . a “Don, you are a trump!” said Buffalo “No, indeed, for I'm all right,” was the He had reached the stream and en- ef Bill, with enthusiasm. : confident reply. tered it, and saw that he had to go down ae = blac Sat I vpn like to have a | its bed, as the bank on the side where he pe Mat pard Of mine here with me,” would eventually land was impassable at CHAPTER XXII, * Who is it?” along there, rising boldly from the water 433 | THE PLOT. “Nugget Nat, one of my scouts.” toa heig rht of six. to sixty feet. me ~ Until the shadows of night fell upon “ All right, if he's your friend I’m will At last he came to where he had en- - a. ‘: the valley Buffalo Bill sat talking to the ing.” tered the stream when riding the pony, Boy Hermit, for he had told him he * When do you wish to start?” and, turning into the trail he had before w ould reluain ail night with him and re- “ Well, you see, I had better wait sev- | followed. he cantered along until he was turn to the soldiers’ Culp the next day. eral days, so as to let Indian Dick think hearing the range, when all of a sudden Supper was disposed. of with a relish wy father has had time to improve.’ he saw a number of mounted Sioux. by the scout, and he accompanied the ‘Yes, for there must be no mistake, In moments of danger Buffalo Bill is youth to the bars to see that they were | you know.” | one to think quickly and act promptly, all safe for the night and the horses could |. ‘No, there will not be.”’ ind he saw at once that if he retraced not stray. “Well, I'll start for camp and take that | his way he would have to retreat to the = Later they entered the cabin, and Buf-| Indian pony with’ me and will have Boy Hermit’s cabin, and he did not wish 4 lo Bill spread his blankets in what had | Lieutenant Arthur Low ery send a courier | to compromise him. dae en the bed of the man he had slain; | to the fort to inform Golonel Doan that we He eould not flank to either side, for ee Bachna youth did not seem to regard it are detained for a good reason for some | the Indians cut him off on his right, the os eae as amiss, and the scout did not care to] days, so they will not be anxious there direct road to camp, and in the other dis lo yaaa ss Suggest that there was, and, in fact, did | about the little command, and then I will | reetion he would be going far from the hater: ee th “not dread that he would be haunted by come here with Nugget Nat.” place he sought to reach, and into a paca Fis | Nees grim specters in oceupying the bed of one * All right.” country he was unaequainted with. (aa ‘ “ args Who a few hours before had been re- How long will it take you to go to Remembering that upon the cliff, which © ° ee ow bed in the earth. the Indian Village and back?” he had scaled by aid of his lariat, thar » waterfall came to the I'll leave after dinner, so as to get | there was a ledge of rocks that afforde1 the yelp of a coyote | there in- the night, and well away be-| a splendid shelter to fight from, ant Ri - moved to his 1 a | ie The roar of ' eee of the sc by La 5 te wi - Was heard, and as he was sinking off into | fore dawn, and will be back here the | w here his horses would. be protected 13 200 ae wy er an owl hooted weirdly in a tree next morning.” Well, he dashed directly up the steep Je re i a the cabin. And the renegade chiefs ‘will soon slope to this point. te ie ae “Bat Buffalo Bill was a son of the forest | follow you? If compelled to, he knew he could dee a Pes pints, and such things had aD terror ‘ x es, : Sert his horses, ‘aescend by this lari at, eg 7, a c sts Ay at | Bae Will they bring any braves with | and make his way to the camp before he RS t ark is hers ce or twice he awakened during the | them? could be headed off. ee ty Sean night, the last time to start as he saw “Oh, no; for what they do they wish The Indians gave a yell of delight at mm the cabin door open and the Beer «3 to get full credit for, and will only call | beholding him, and, spreading out. their ee fe & streaming in, | upon the Indians when they Wish to | line, sought to surround him, but the dash rats But just mer: Don entered and said: Strike a blow. up the slope prevented this, | Be Na 1 a “Ym sorry if I disturbed you, but the} “Good! they will walk right into our! They then yelled with triumph, for they ‘Le at “f coyotes made such a row I knew they | parlor, as the spider said unto the fly, | | considered him their sure prey now, and alas x were at father’s ip coma so { went out and} “Tt is a good plot, but the only thine these yells turned to howls of rage ag) | ee sty Shot several.’ ~ ney, _| that troubles me about it is ae you take they recognized the pony of their young aay ? oe ear: Vhy, I heard j 0 Shots.” | Such chances. F ehief in the possession of the scout, | el? Aas f wee ane I did not wish to disturb you, so} Again came the answer, “Ob, don't | They, of course, at once set him down as — Rig ; th bows d arrows. mind me, for I'm all right. i the slayer of Blue Mark, and now was the es ie a , ye Teme bic na pa hen aoEee on}| When the plan was fully arranged Bur- eg to get revenge. | fay i e _g DE STAVES, CRE falo Bill” mounved: his own eb ae vy ‘It's a Boe: “out on the seout for thelr eae Die ee _ tye te i! is MENS hn eo per aaa AN Ney hy ra vi da Ltn A et eR RCE TEED “ie tent eae a ates eee s ere pty ee Peanienooksccom