Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-03-14

poker. One of these days he'll swamp
you all, sure as shooting. He's in debt
now, and it'll fetch him before you know
it. What he needs is to be under a cap
tain who could discipline him little.
BY Joye, I'd do it, And Rayner's teeth
emphasize the assertion.
The young adjutapt thinks it advisable
to say nothing that may provoke further
vehcmcnce. All the same, he remem-
bers Rayners bitterness of manner, and
has abundant cause to.
When the next morning breaks, chill
and pallid. Il change has come in the as
pect of affairs. During the earliest hour
of the dawn the red light of a light
draught river boat startled the outlying
pickets down stream, and the Far West,
answering the muilled hail from shore,
responded, through the medium of Il
mates stentorian tones. "NewS thatll
rout you fellows out" The sun is hardly
peeping over the Jagged outline of the
eastern hills when, with Rayner's entire
battalion aboard, she is steaming again
down stream. with orders to land at the
mouth Of the Sweet Root. There the four
companies vii! disemhark in readiness
to join the rest of the regiment.
All day long again the wagon train
twists and wriggles through an ashen
section of Les Mauvaises Terres. 1t is
a tedious, trying march for Hull's little
command Of troopers-all that is now
left to guard the train. The captain is
constantly out on the exposed flank,
eagerly scanning the rough country to
the south and eXpectant any moment of
an attack from that direction. He and
his men, as well as the horses, mules and
tcamstcrs. are fairly tired out when at
nightfall they park the wagons in big
semicirCle, with the broad river forming
q shining chord to the arc of white can
YES. All the live stock are safely herded
within the inclosure; a few reliable sol
diers are posted well out to the south
and east to guard against surprise, and
the veteran Srrgt. Clancy is put in COM
mdnd OF the scntrics. The captain gives
strict iniunctions as to the importance
Of these duties, for he is far from easy
in his mind over tho situation Tina
EiiUrs, he kltOna. ar over IN the valley
RaYncr'S men is tied up at the bank
some five miles below, around the bend.
The til are far off to the northward
across the Elk, as ordered. and must he
expecting ON the morrow 70 make for
tn" old Indian 'forry" opposite Battle
Butte. The main body of IN" Sioux are
reuorted fartbor down stream. but he
rorls if i'm his homes that thor. ,ro MIMI
brrs OF them within SIGNAL and he
wishes with all his heart the --tb were
hnra sill Fine rnneroI ,,.,. euro no
would STIR mn war partins ON fine other
shore. Iudividually he has had very
littjn Icll i'm econtinm duriro tho .un,-
mor. and he cannot helm WISHING ne
were with the rast IF fine crowd ins,4od
of here. train puar,linr
Presently AIR II,vne anne,rs elastic
and debonnir os thouch bn had r,t boon
vorlino lil,o q horse MI d,v III. voic.
sounds so full of cheer and life that Hull
looks nm smiliurlv
.WcIl. young,ter. Won seem 70 love
this frontinr life
"Every bin of if cantain was emf
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