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On the way to El Monte they halted at Lookout Ranch, and saw how the boy ‘angers lived, Sable exerting himself to set before the party a splendid dinner. From there ‘the troopers were sent on into El Monte, while Captain Plummer, Buffalo Bill, Wild Kid and’ Henrico San- chez started for the ranch of Doctor Del- mar, That the doctor was all that was bad— that he was leading a double life, they had ample proof of from what Wild Kid knew, but no one at his home seemed to be aware that he was other than he pro- fessed to be. The home was a comfortable one, well stocked, and he had there everything to make him contented with life if he had not possessed a4 heart of evil. Among his papers were found docu- ments which proved that he had always led a wild and sinful life, and had fled from his boyhood home on account of for- gery and other erimes, though he had graduated in medicine high in his class, and would have made an honored name for himself but for the streak of bad he had in his nature. Enough was also discovered from his papers to show that the hold he held upon Major Brasher was one of fear. The major had killed a man long years before, under circumstances of justifiable homicide, but with only one person to prove this. That one was the father of Duke Del- mar, and hating the major, for some cause, he allowed him to become a fugi- itive. The elder Delmar’s- papers fell into the s0n’s hands, and thus Duke Delmar held the secret, and thus compelled the major to consent to his attentions to his daugh- ter, the beautiful Marie. That the major knew Doctor Delmar as he really was, all felt sure was not the Case; particularly was Wild Kid convinced of this fact. Captain Plummer and Buffalo Bill were ‘glad to learn these facts, as Major Brash- er had once been an honored officer of the From the Delmar ranch they rode over _ to Idlerest, Wild Kid acting as guide, It was a surprise to Major Brasher, his wife and Lady Beauty, when they saw Wild Kid coming to the ranch, accom- ‘panied by the splendid looking scout ana san army officer, They were in ignorance of the happen- ‘Ings of the past forty-eight hours, and the ) Suspiciously at Wild Kid, while both Mrs. Brasher and Marie ‘stepped forward and greeted him warmly. othing abashed, Wild Kid did the “in- troduction act,” as he called it, and pre- ‘to the major and the ladies. while Captain Plum Plummer was known er and Buffalo Bill | he would go with them Buffalo Bill’s Snap-Shot. to be a distinguished young officer at Fort Rio, so they received a warm welcome. It fell upon Captain Plummer to tell of the late happenings, and all noticed the start of pleasure Major Brasher gave as he was informed of the death of Doctor Delmar. As for Marie, she did not change coun- tenance—a proof that she was not in love with the wicked’ man. ) That it was Doctor Delmar who had planned the kidnapping of Marie, to force her into a secret marriage with him, came out, and also that the proofs existed of the major’s having killed the man he had slain purely in self-defense. Then it was Buffalo Bill’s time to say a word, and he reported tliat he had letters to the major and also to Doctor Delmar— that he had come to Texas upon a double mission, one being to track certain de- Serters from the army guilty of other crimes, and that in Panama, Brimstone Bill and Mustang Matt he had found the men he sought. His other mission was to look up the children of Captain Kidd Poisal, stolen in their younger years. One of them he was sure he had found, from all he could learn of him and his past, in the waif of the prairies, known as Wild Kid, the Texan Terror. ~* The girl he had yet to discover. With a glance at his wife, Major Brash- er then spoke: “‘I must tell the truth, sir, for the daughter of Colonel Kidd Poisal is before you, in this young lady, supposed to be our own child. We bought her from a Mexican woman when she was a very lit- tle girl. She had a little brother. as we then knew, but we took only the girl. and now a resemblance that has often struck us is explained, for Wild Kid there is Marie’s brother, beyond a doubt.” It would be hard to tell of what fol- lowed, all being excited save Wild Kid, who presently remarked: “Tf Colonel Kidd Poisal was the father. of Lady Beauty and myself, then Rico is our half-brother, for his father bore the Same name and was first married to a Mexican lady, Senorita Rita Sanchez, as Captain Miguel Munoz told me in his dy- ing confession. ~“We are getting located and labeled all around, but, much as I like Sable, I'll draw the line at having him tabbed as one of the family, and I guess Lady Beauty and Rico are with me there.” It was not hard to induce the party to remain all night at Idlerest Ranch, and a very pleasant evening was spent, the sis- ter and: ¢wo brothers, so strangely met, getting acquainted, while handsome and young Captain Plummer was congratulat- ing himself that the Boy Rangers were really the brothers of the beautiful “Belle Marie.”’ The next morning the ‘party of men all rode to El Monte and the story of the doc- tor’s double life and the fate of the Rene- gades of the Rio Grande became known. El Monte at once put on an air of vir- tue, and when the troop under Captain Plummer started for the fort there: was talk of sending for a parson to come and do missionary work there, j | As Henrico Sanchez was in-no hurry to claim his fortune, he consented to return to the Northwest with Buffalo Bill and Wild Kid, and the three set off together one fine morning, | There, at the fort where Buffalo Bill was chief of scouts, the boys found their father, colonel commanding, and he was in truth very much pleased to hear Cody’s goo story of them, and said upon their return to Texas, This he did, and the meeting between father and daughter was, as we may well infer, an affecting one, and it was decided, _ : 15 as the colonel was a man of ample means, that Marie should remain at Idlerest Raneh until he had gone East and found a home for them all, as he intended to re- tire from the service and enjoy his later years in the society of the children from whom a cruel fate had so long kept him apart, While he went East, Kid Poisal, Jr., as we must now call Wild Kid, and Hen- rico Poisal, went to Mexico together, where the latter received his inheritance without a word being raised against it. So it was that a year after the meeting of Buffalo Bill and his Boy Rangers, the scout again crossed their trail, this time in the elegant home in the Bast of Colonel Poisal, to which the great scout had been invited as a special guest for an especial occasion—which was the marriage of Belle Marie to Captain Plummer. As for the two youths, they had given up their wild.life, and, with Sable for a valet to both, they were content to live a quiet but eminently useful existence in the East, few who knew them ever dream< ing of the eventful career they had led in the Lone Star State in years gone by. THE END. Next Hatr-Drme Liprary, No. 949, The Three Lieutenants: GENTLEMAN GEORGE ON DECK. BY T. J. FLANAGAN, Beadle's Half-Dime Library. BY T. 3. FLANAGAN, 909 Midshipman Dare, the Pirate Catcher. . 925 The Voung Cowboy Captain. 988 The Two Midshipmen; or, The Corsair-Chaser’s First Cruise. 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