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: 24. Slocum took bold of the antlers, and this time there was no mistake, the great elk was dead as ac%or nail. They got bim laid out after George had been extricated with no worse burt than clothes torn to rags, and measured bim, estimating his body as big as an ordinary cow, while the borns were large eneugh to hold a six-footer between their tips. hey wasted very little sentiment over the animal, for both were very hungry, and set to work to skin and cut it up at once, Siocum found bis three buliet holes where he had fired them into the luugs and liver of the buck, and George observed: ‘'Darned strange those should kill him. Ive knowed bucks carry away a hull grist of lead in the lungs and go never a bit worse fur if. Reckon Pi look fur mine. It ought to be néar the beart.” They cut into the pe ige of the chest behind the shoulder, and found that the first shot fired | George had passed through the very middle of the elk’s heart, yet the furious creature had leaped up and made a desperate fight for nearly a mipute after. ‘* Now,” siid George, when this was settled, ‘this critter’s got a doe somewhere near here, or he wouldn’t ha’ b’en so rambumptious about it. We don’t want to look turit. Buck veni- son’s good enough fur me.” So saying, be cut off a steak from the yet warm carcass, and began to broil it over the fire, an examp!+ followed by Slocum, and great was their rej icing over the unexpected feast furnished them by this belligerent buck. They ate till their hunger was satiated, and then um oO ved: “If the wind would only go down, I should believe in gerting into the boat again.” Montana George looked keenly up the course of the river and to windward, “{ d’n’o but what you're right,” he said. “The Sioux must ha’ found what we did to shea Bull by this time, and I reckon they ain’t the boys to sit still norther or none,” “ But they can’t get down to us.” ‘‘Mebbe they can’l, and mebbe they kin, Mr. Slocum. e’ve come down one river ina bull boat and I reckon ’twouldn’t be much fur them to come down in another. If they do, look out fur trouble for they’ll be wicked as blazes.” His prophecy proved true for that afternoon when the sun was sloping to the west and the wiad was going down a dark speck was seen up the stream and sooz developed into a bull boat of more elaborate construction than their own measuring over ten feet long, made of several hides anc full of warriors with rifles. Siocum saw it first and the two fugitives hastily took tbe skin of the slaughtered ‘buck into the boat for warmth, a lot of cooked veni- son for food und pushed off into the rapid stream. This time they were better fortified against the cold, for the elk-hide was a great protection, and che man who stood up to pole this time was Slecum. They ed out into the stream some miles abead of the Indians, and soon found that the latter were losing ground, on account of the crowd in their boat. The cold was no longer so piercing and the wind was falling all the the time, while the clear green sunset portended a calmer night, There was no moon; but for all that they could see their pursuers put in to the shore as svon as it grew dark and George told Slocum: ‘*They won’t follow us no further now. If it was daylight they’d keep on forever, but the dark skeers all Injuns.” And again he proved to be right; for when the morning dawned on them at last balf-be- numbed witb the cold in spite of the blanket and elk-hide, the bull boat was floating on the ~broad stream of the Missouri, and they were all alone with the norther nearly blown out and white fleecy clouds dappling the blue sky all over its bright expanse. ‘* We're gitting nigh Gladstone,” said George, heartily, “‘and if it hadn’t ha’ been for you, Mr. Slocum, we'd never have done what we have. You was born to make a good plains- man, I reckon.” ‘‘A good surveyor, I hope,” answered the young man, cheerfully. ‘‘By Jove, George, now it’s all over, 1 begin to think we've done something to be proud of.” | ‘* Done something? I reckon we have,” cried the plainsman. ‘‘ We’ve done what nary white man never did yet, got into Sitting Bull’s camp vee Bot out alive, and that’s a good deal of ‘* But that’s not all we’ve done,” interrupted Seth Slocum. ‘‘ We’ve got what we went for, and what you said I couldn’t get.” **TH own that; take it all back. I didn’t think ye could, but ye did.” ‘And now comes the best part of the whole journey. ‘And what's that?’ ‘Getting bome again, George. I wonder if they’ll arrest us for running the guards and stampeding Major Ireland’s stock?” Montaaa George grinned, 155 THe CorsarR QUEEN. ** We don’t know nothin’ bout Major [reland’s stock. *Tain’t no biz of oursif he let his borses be tuk by Injuns. Reckon Sitting Bull’s got most of them now.” ‘* You are wrong. You forget the norther.” **] don’t forget nothin’. That ‘ere norther is Seth Slocum, Railroad Surveyor. : well-nigh over now, and you kin bet your boots | that some of’em has got down to them hosses by this time. land’s bosses, and if be hadn’t got ’em | ain’t so sure we could bave,skinned out as we did.” sé Why i ’ ‘Cause it must have made them Injuns feel good, to see such a prize of bosses and packs coming in witbout the trouble of fighting for it. That’s what saved our lives in my opimion. If we'd ha’ gune in bare-handed, they’d have No, no, Sitting Bull’s got Major Ire. | roasted us for spite, to get some fun out of us.” | 173 CaLirornisa Joun. By Albert W. Aiken...... The little bull boat floated safely down the broad and turbid stream of the Missouri and in due time arrived at Gladstone, The two comrades did not make any triumph- al entry into the city with their curious craft, which might have attracted too much attention and comment, besides attracting the inquiries of Major Lreland and his friends at Fort Glad- stone. On the contrary, they landed in the night far below the city, took the celebrated robe of Sitting Bull from its basket frame and proceed- ed to Gladstone on foot. It was on the next day when Mr. Russell, chief engineer, was sitting in his office, gloomily conversing with two of the rich directors, who bad already sunk a million in the road, and saw no chance of gaining the subsidy they bad hoped for on account of the mis-ing link in the last survey, that a tap came at the door, and a young man walked in, neatly clad and shaven, and said, quietly: ‘‘Good-morning, Mr. Russell, back witb the book, sir.” Russell stared at bim stupidly. For a little while he did not know him, asking: ‘* What book? Who are you?” “Tam Seth Slocum, sir,” said the young man smiling. ‘‘ | was an ax-man on the summer survey and Mr, Graves put me on as assistant advance engineer. You gave me leave to go to Sitting Bull’s camp and see if 1 could get back the lost field-book. It cost three thousand dol- lars to fit us out andit’sall gone. Buthere’s the book !” And he threw it on the table before the three magnates, who clutched it eagerly when Rus- sell «exclaimed: ‘‘ By heavens it’s true, The road’s saved and your fortune’s made, young man. Ask what you wish you shall have it. Shall be not, Mr. lutus?” Mr. Plutus was turning over the leaves of the book rapidly and he looked up to answer: ‘‘ Anything in reason. Do you know the young man, Mr. Russell?” ‘I do, sir, now he speaks. I sent bim out as a forlorn bope, never expecting to see him again, but hes done what no other man ever did before. 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