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LCopyright. 189?, by F. Tennyson Neeiy.] CHAPTER IIL—CONTINUED. Reno was some 90 miles away, and not until late the next evening did the graj-s reach the lonely post. Not a sign of hostile Indian had been seen or hea^d, said the officer in command. Small bands of hunters were out to ward Pumpkin Butte two days before. Yes, Ogallallas—and a scouting par ty, working down the valley of the Powder, had met no band at all, though trails were numerous. They were now patrolling toward the Big Horn. Per haps there'd be a courier in to-morrow. Better get a good night's rest mean time, he said. But all the same he doubled his guards and ordered extra vigilance, for all men knew John Fol som, and when Folsom was anxious on the Indian question it was time to look alive. Daybreak came without a sign, but Folsom could not rest. The grays had no authority to go beyond Reno, but such was his anxiety that it was decided to hold the troop at the cantonment for a day or two. Mean time, despite his years, Folsom decided to push on for the Gap. All efforts to dissuade him were in vain. With him rode Baptiste, a half-breed French man, whose mother was an Ogallalla squaw, and "Bat" had served him many a year. Their canteens were filled, their saddle-pouches packed. They led along an extra mule, with camp equip age, and shook hands gravely with the officers ere they rode away. "All de pends," said Folsom, "on whether Bed Cloud is hereabouts im person. If he is and I can get his ear I can probably stave off trouble long enough to get those people at the Gap back to Kear ney, or over here. They're goners if they attempt to stay there and build that post. If you don't have word from us in two days, send for all the troops the government can raise. It will take every mother's son they've got to whip the Sioux when once they're leagued together." "But our men have the new breech loaders now, Mr. Folsom," said the officers. "The Indians have only old percussion-cap rifles, and not too many of them." "But there are 20 warriors to every soldier," was the answer, "and all are fighting men." They watched the pair until they disappeared far to the west. All day long the lookouts searched the horizon. All that night the sentries listened for hoofbeats on the Bozeman road, but only the weird chorus of the coyotes woke the echoes of the dark prairie. Dawn of the second day came, and, un able to bear suspense, the major sent a little party, mounted on their fleet est horses, to scour the prairie at least halfway to the foothills of the Big Horn, and just at nightfall they came back—three at least—galloping like mad, their mounts a mass of foam. Folsom's dread was well founded. Red Cloud, with heaven only knows how many warriors, had camped on Cra/y Woman's Fork within the past three days, and gone on up stream. He might have met and fought the troops sent out three days before. lie must have met the troops dispatched to Warrior Gap. And this last, at least, he had done. For a few seconds after the fall of the buffalo bull, the watchers on the dis tant ridge lay still, except that Dean, turning slightly, called to the orderly trumpeter, who had come trotting out atfer the troop commander, and was now halted and afoot some 20 yards down the slope. "Go back, Bryan," he ordered. "Halt the ambulances. Noti fy Capt. Brooks that there are lots of Indians ahead, and have the sergeant deploy the men at once." Then he turned back and with his field glass studied the party along the ravine. "They can't have seen us, can thej', lieutenant?" muttered the trooper nearest him. But Dean's young face was grave and clouded. Certainly the Indians acted as though they were totally un aware of the presence of troops, but the more he thought the more he knew that no big body of Sioux would be traveling across country at so crit ical a time (country, too, that was conquered as this was from their ene mies, the Crows), without vigilant scouts afar out on front and flank. The .more he thought the more he knew that even as early as three o'clock those keen-eyed fellows must have sighted his little column, con spicuous as it was because of its wag ons. Beyond question he told him self, the chief of the band or village so steadily approaching from the northeast had full information of their presence, and was coming confidently ahead. What had he to fear? Even though the blood of settlers and sol diers might still be red upon the bands of his braves, even though fresh scalps might be dangling at this moment from their shields, what mattered it? Did he not know that the safeguard of the Indian bureau spread like the wing of a protecting angel over him and his people, forbidding troops to molest or open fire unless they themselves were attacked? Did he not laugh in his ragged shirt sleeve at the policy of the white fool who would permit the red enemy to ride boldly up to his soldiers, count their numbers* inspect their ar ray, satisfy himself as to their arma ment and readiness, then calculate the chances, and, if he thought the force too strong, ride on his way with only a significant gesture in parting in sult? If, on the contrary, he found it weak, then he could turn loose his braves, surround, massacre and scalp, and swear before the commissioners sent out to investigate next moon that he and his people knew nothing about the matter—nothing, at least, that they could be induced to tell. One moment more Dean watched and waited. Two of the Indians in- the ravine were busily reloading their rifles. Two others were aiming over the bank, for, with the strange stupid ity of their kind, the other buffalo, even when startled by the shot, had never sought safety in flight, but were now sniffing the odor of blood on the tainted air and slowly, wonderingly drawing near the stricken leader as though to ask what ailed him. Obe dient and docile the Indian ponies stood with drooping heads, hidden under the shelter of the steep banks. Nearer and nearer came the big black animals, bulky, stupid, fatuous the foremost lowered a huge head to sniff at the blood oozing from the shoulder of the dying bull, then two more shots puffed out from the ravine, the huge head tossed suddenly in air, and the un gainly brute started and staggered, whirled about and darted a few yards away, then plunged on its knees, and the next moment, startled at some sight the soldier watchers could not see, the black band was seized with sudden panic and darted like mad into the depths of the watercourse, dis appeared one moment from sight, then, suddenly reappearing, came laboring up the hither side, straight for the crest on which they lay, a dozen black, bounding, panting beasts thundering over the ground, followed by half a dozen darting Indian ponies, each with his lithe rider scurrying in pursuit. "Out of the way, men! Don't fire!" shouted Dean. And, scrambling back toward their horses, the lieutenant and his men drew away from the front of the charging herd, invisible as yet to the halted troop and to the occu pants of the ambulance, whose eager heads could be seen poked out at the side doors of the leading vehicle, as though watching for the cause of the sudden halt. And then a thing happened that at least one man saw and fortunately remembered later. Bryan, the trum peter, with jabbing heels and flapping arms,,was tearing back toward the troop at the moment at the top speed of his gray charger, already so near that he was shouting to the sergeant in the lead. By this time, too, that vet eran trooper, with the quick sense of duty that seemed to inspire the war time sergeant, had jumped his little column "front into line" to meet the unseen danger so that now, with car bines advanced, some thirty blue jack ets were aligned in the loose fighting order of the prairies in front of the foremost wagon. The sight of the dis tant officer and men tumbling hur riedly to one side, out of the way pre sumably of some swiftly-coming peril, acted like magic on the line. Carbines were quickly brought to ready, the gun locks crackling in chorus as the Disdainfully turned their backs. horses pranced and snorted. But it had a varying effect on the occupants of the leading wagon. The shout of "Indians" from Bryan's lips, the sight of scurry on the ridge ahead brought the engineer and aid-de-camp spring ing out, rifle in hand, to take their manly part in the coming fray. It should have brought Maj. Burleigh too, but that appropriately named non combatant never showed outside. An instant more and to the sound of rising thunder, before the astonished eyes of the cavalry line there burst into view, full tear for safety, the uncouth, yet marvelously swift-running leaders of the little herd. The whole dozen came flying across the sky line and down the gentle slope, heading well around to the left of the line of troopers, while sticking to their flanks like red net tles half a dozen warriors rode like the wind on their nimble ponies, crack ing away with revolver or rifle in sav age joy in the glorious sport. Too much for Burleigh's nerve was the combination of sounds, thunder of hoofs and sputter of shots, for when a cheer of sympathetic delight went up from the soldier line at the sight of the chase, and the young engineer sprang to the door of the ambulance to help the major out, he found him a limp and ghastly heap* quivering with terror in the bottom of the wagon, looking for all the world as if he were trying to crawl under the seat. CHAPTER IV. Away to the left of the little com mand tore the quarry and the chase. Out on the rolling prairie, barely four hundred yards from where the ambu lance and mules were backed into a tangle of traces and whiffletrees and fear-stricken creatures, another buffa lo had dropped in a heap a swarthy rider had tumbled off his pony, cut a slash or two with ever-ready knife, and then, throwing a bead-bedizened left leg over his eager little mount, had gone lashing away after his fellows, not without a jeering slap at the halt ed soldiery. Then, in almost less time than it takes to tell it, the pursued and pursuers had vanished from sight over a low ridge a mile to the north. "Only a hunting party!" said one of the nervous recruits, with a gulp of re lief. "Only a hunting party," gasped Burleigh, as presently he heaved him self up from the floor, "and I thought I'd never find that damned gun of mine. All this fuss for nothing!" he continued, his lips still blue and quiv ering. "That green youngster up there in front hasn't learned the first princi ples of plainscraft yet. Here, Brooks," he added, loudly, "it's high time you were looking after this sub of yours," and Brooks, despite his illness, was in deed working out of the back door ofhis yellow trundle bed at the moment, and looking anxiously about. But the en gineer stood pale and quiet, coolly studying the flustered growler, and when Burleigh's shifting eyes sought that young scientist's face, what he read there—and Burleigh was no fool —told him he would be wise to change the tune. The aid had pushed him in front of the troop and was signaling to Dean, once more in saddle and scan ning through his glass the big band afar down the valley. "Take my horse, sir," said the ser geant, dismounting, and the officer thanked him and rode swiftly out to join the young commander at the front. Together they gazed and con sulted and still no signal came to re sume the advance. Then the troopers saw the staff officer make a broad sweep with his right arm to the south, and in a moment Dean's hat was up lifted and waved well out in that di rection. "Drop carbine," growled the sergeant. "By twos again. Incline to the right. Damn the Sioux, I say! Have we got to circle five miles around their hunting ground foe fear of hurt ing their feelings? Come on, Jimmy," he added to the driver of the leading wagon. Jimmy responded with vig orous language at the expense of his leading mules. The quartermaster and engineer silently scrambled in the ambulance started with a jerk and away went the party off to the right of the trail, the wagons jolting a bit now over the uneven clumps of bunch grass. But once well up at the summit of the low divide the command reined in for a look at the great Indian caval cade swarming in the northeastward valley, and covering its grassy surface still a good mile away. Out from among the dingy mass came galloping half a dozen young braves, followed by as many squaws. The former soon spread out over the billowy surface, some following the direction of the chase, some bounding on southwest ward as though confident of finding what they sought th« moment they reached the nearest ridge some rid ing straight to the point where lay the carcasses of the earliest victims of the hunt. Here in full view of the soldiery, but vouchsafing them no glance nor greeting whatever, two young warriors reined in their lively ponies and disdainfully turned their backs upon the spectators on the di vide, while the squaws, with shrill laugh and chatter, rolled from their saddles and began the drudgery of their lot—skinning and cutting up the buffaloes slaughtered by their lords. "Don't you see," sneered Burleigh, "it's nothing but a village out for a hunt—nothing in God's world to get stampeded about. We've had all this show of warlike preparations for noth ing." But he turned away again as he caught the steady look in the en gineer's blue eyes, and shouted to his more appreciative friend, the aid-de camp: "Well, pardner, haven't we fooled away enough time here, or have we got to await the pleasure of people that never saw Indians before?" Dean flushed crimson at the taunt. He well knew for whom it was meant. He was indignant enough by this time to speak for himself, but the aid-de camp saved him the trouble. "I requested Mr. Dean to halt a few moments, Burleigh. It is necessary I should know' what band thin is, and how many are out," "Well, be quick about it," snapped the quartermaster. "I want to get to Reno before midnight, and at this rate we won't make it in a week." A sergeant who could speak a little Sioux came riding back to the camp, a grin on his sun-blistered face. "Well, sergeant, wliat'd he say?" asked the staff officer. "He said would I plaze go to hell, sor," was the prompt response. "Won't he tell who they are?" "He won't, sorr. He says we know widout askin', which is thrue, sorr. They're Ogallallas to a man, barrin' the squaws and pappooses, wid ould Red Cloud himself." "Ilow'd you find out if they wouldn't talk?" asked the staff officer, impa tiently. 'Twas the bucks wouldn't talk—ex cept in swear wurruds. I wasted no time on tliem, sorr. I gave the first squaw the last hardt»wsk in me saddle bags and tould her wo3 it Maclipcalota, and she said it was, «tnd he was wid Box Karesha—that's oi-'xi Folsom—not six hour ago, an' FolsoSc's gone back to the cantonment." "Then the quicker we n'kip the bet ter," were the aid-de-ca.u?p's words. "Get us to Reno fast as y-Tj can, Dean. Strike for the road agaH as soon as we're well beyond their L'i'Talo. Now for it! There's something behind ell this bogus hunt business, and Folsom knows what it is." And every mile of the way, until thick darkness settled down over the prairie, there was something behind the trooper cavalcade—several some things—wary red men, young and wiry, who never let themselves be seen, yet followed on over wave after wave of prairie to look to it that no man went back from that column to carry the news of their presence to the little battalion left in charge of the new post at Warrior Gap. It was the dark of the moon, or, as the Indians say, "the nights the moon is sleeping in his lodge," and by ten p. m. the skies were overcast. Only here and there a twinkling star was visible, and only where some trooper struck a light for his pipe could a hand be seen in front of the face. The ambulance mules that had kept their steady jog during the late afternoon and the long gloaming that followed still seemed able to maintain the gait, and even the big, lumbering wagon at the rear came briskly on under the tug of its triple span, but in the intense darkness the guides at the head of the column kept losing the road, and the bumping of the wagons would reveal the fact, and a halt would be ordered, men would dismount and go bending and crouching and feeling their way over the almost barren surface, hunt ing among the sage brush for the dou ble furrow of the trail. Matches in numerable were consumed, and min utes of valuable time, and the quarter master waxed fretful and impatient, and swore that his mules could find their way where the troopers couldn't, and finally, after the trail had been lost and found half a dozen times, old Brooks was badgered into telling Dean to lit the ambulance take the lead. The driver shirked at once. "There's no tellin' where well fetch up," said he. "Those mules can't see the trail if a man can't. Take their harness off and turn 'em loose, an' I suppose they can find their way to the post, but sure as you turn them loose when they've got somethin' on 'em, or behind 'em, and the doggone cussedness of the creatures will prompt them to smash things." [To Be Continued.] They have a right to censure, tliat have a heart to help. The rut Is cruelty, not injustice GRAVEYARD GUARDIANS. How the Cemeterl^p of a Great City Are Protected from Koctnrnal Depredations. Every cemetery in Chicago and in its suburbs has a watchman, whose work it is through the dark hours of the night to make the round of the vaults and the graves. Under the belief that it must be' a hard task to find men willing to stand guard by musty tombs and new-made graves when the moon is in the dark the of ficials of several Chicago cemetery companies were asked if they did not ever find difficulty in getting men to make the nightly rounds, says the Tribune of that city. "Difficulty? Bless you, no," was the answer. "The place of night watch man in a cemetery is one that is sought after. It may strike some people as being an uncanny sort of a job, but its 'uncanniness' makes it attractive There is no more trouble about get ting a man to make the round of the tombstones than there is to get one to sit on a stool and figure up how much the lot-owners owe." An easy way to commit suicide and to save friends the trouble of carrying the body far for a resting place after death is to scale the wall of Graceland or the fence of Calvary some time be tween midnight and dawn and go med dling around some newly-made grave or go fooling with the lock of some granite vault. So ghouls confine their operations to unguarded country cem eteries. Every graveyard guardian in Chicago and vicinity is armed and is said to 'be a crack shot. The Calvary watchman cannot well miss his game, for he carries over his shoulder a heav ily charged double-barrel shotgun, and shot scatter pretty well at a distance of 25 or 30 yards. This guardian of Chi cago's! Roman Catholic dead can follow up this shotgun fusillade with revolver bullets if necessary. It fell to the lot of a man recently to make an extremely early call at Graceland cemetery. The sun was just coming \ip as the visitor entered the burial ground. The fact that it was daylight saved him. As he stood on one of the walks near the center of the cemetery, for he had gone thus far undiscovered, a man on a bicycle whirled^ down on him. It was a case of stand and deliver your intentions. As a matter of fact the visitor had gone there in the interest of a cer tain newspaper whose city editor had heard that the newly erected monu ment of a prominent man had been overthrown. He wished to get the story into an early edition. If the editor could have entered Graceland just as the tips of the willows near the pond' were being gilded, by the rising sun he would have seen his emissary walking briskly toward the gate just a few yards in advance of a cross-looking man on a wheel. It was eight o'clock before the actual fac*i". touching the condition of the injured monument could be learned. There are signs posted about a Jew ish ceingtery northwest of Chicago which say succinctly: KEEP OUT! Any Person Seen in This Cemetery Be tween Sundown and Sunrise Will Be Shot. No Questions Asked. It might seem at first thought that the robbery of a grave well filled in with earth would be the question of too much time to allow it^ successful accomplishment. As a matter of fact, in those parts of the cemeteries which arc set aside for the sale of single graves the bodies are placed so close together that in digging one burial place the side of the coffin in the next grave is often uncovered. The graves are frequently dug the day before the interment takes place, and in cases like this the taking of a body from the adjoining place of sep ulelier by way of the newly dug grave would be the matter of but a minute. It is not, however, any great danger from grave robbers that leads to the extraordinary vigilance exercised over cemeteries. There are ghouls of less er degree, those whose booty is the flowers left by friends on the resting places of their dead. 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So stubborn and diffi cult is this disease that to invent a remedy to cure chronic catarrh has_ been the ambi tion of the greatest minds in all ages. Is it therefore any wonder that the vast multitude of people who have been cured of chronic catarrh by Peruna are so lavish in their praise of this remedy? That the discovery of Peruna has made the cure of catarrh a practical certainty is not only the testimony of the people, but many medical men declare it to be true. As a drug store in this age of the world ia incomplete without Peruna, it can be ob tained anywhere with directions for use. A complete guide for the prevention and cure of catarrh and all diseases of winter, sent free by The Peruna Medicine Co., Co lumbus, WHEW WniTIXO TO ADVERTISES* pleaae atate that you saw the Advwtlm •tat In tbla paver. DULUTH.