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seal and replace it in five minutes, and
he'll never suspect the loss until the com
mand all gets together again next week.
BY that timo I'll be three hundred miles
away. Everybody will say twas Cover
that robbed him, and you with your five
hundred will never be suspected asked
him how could he expect the captain to
90 and leave so much money in his
bags with no one TO guard it; and he
said he'd bet on it if did it right. The
captain had had no luck tracking In
dams that summer, and the regiment
was laughing at him. He knew they
were scattering every which way now,
and was eager to strike them. All had
to do was to creep in excited like, wake
him up sudden, and tell him l was sure
] had heard an Indian drum and their
scalp dance song out beyond the pickets
that they were over towards Battle
Butte, and he could hear them if he
would come out on the river bank. He'd
go quick, says Cover, and think of
nothing
"And-I wouldn't believe it, but he
did. lie sprang up and went right out
with me, just Ginging his overcoat round
him; and he never seemed to want tc
come in. The wind was blowing soft
like from the southeast, and he stood
there straining his ears trying to hear
the sounds | told him Of: but at last
be gave it up, and we went back to
camp, and he took his lantern and
looked in his saddle bags, and / shook
for fear; but he seemed to find every
thing all right, and in the next
ten minutes he was asleep, and Cover
came and whispered to me, and | went
with him, and he gave me five hundred
dollars, in twentics. Now you're bound,
says he; keep the scntric5 Off while
get my horse And that's the last
ever saw Of him. Then a strange thing
happened. Twas hardly daylight when
q courier came galloping up, and | called
the captain, and he read the dispatch
and says he, BY heaven, Clancy, you
were right after all. There are Indians
over there. Why didn't l trust your
ears? Call up the whole command,
The Riilers have freed them at Battle
Butte. and Capt. Rayner has gone with
his battalion. We are to escort the
wagons towherc the boat lies beyond the
bend, and then push over with all the
horsemcn We can take
1t was after daylight when we got
started, but we almost ran the wagons
cross country to the boat, and there
Capt. Hull took T troop and what there
wa5of his own, leaving only tenmen back
with the wagons, and not till then was
Cover missed; but all were in such a
hurry to get to the Indians that no one
paid attention. Mr.. lIayne he begged
the captain to let him 60, too, 50 the
train was lett with the wagon master
and the captain Of the boat, and away
we went. You know all about the fight,
and how twas Mr. Hayne the captain
called 10 ana gave ms Watch ana the
TWO pdckdSc' OF money "heh ne was
ordered 10 charge was rlSht by ms
SIDE ana aWore-Uod forgive me-
that through the crack ana tear
IN the paper l could see the lay
crS OF SfeehpackS, "leh knew
twas only some ones anu tWo5 Tower
had SiIpped IN TO make IL looh right and
capt tayher stood there ana saw the
packet TOO ana nerSt' Naishe and
DuSIer w hite' puI them TWO were Killed
WIN hllh' so that twas only capt. HaN-
her ana ! was let as witnesses, and never
III we got TO Laramie after the cam
paiSl did the trouble come never
dreamed Oh anything ever coming OIL 1T
Dut that every one would say Cover
Sloie Inc money ana deserted; but when
Tue captain turned tne packages over to
1lr' LAY ne ana lheh gov Killed. ana MI
1la!lle carried the packages, with the
WaIcll, seal saddIe bags ana all 10 Chey-
enhe' ana never opened them TIL he got
Ihere-t"o weeks alter, when we were
an Scattered-then they turned on him,
IS own officers md and said he stole 1t
and gambled or sent it away in Chcy-
enne.
81 had lost much of my money then,
and Mrs Clancy got the rest, and it made
me crazy to think of that poor young
gentleman accused of it all; but | was in
for it, and knew it meant prison for
years for me, and perhaps they couldn't
prove it on him. got to drinking then,
and told Capt. Ravnrr that the -th was