Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-04-15
SYNOPSIS.

A detachment OF the Eighteenth IN
fantry from Fort Bethune trapped py
Indians in a narrow. gorge Among tn1 III,
is a stranger who introduces hImseit py
the name of Hampton, also Gins the
post trader, and his daughter. Gilis anC
a majority of the soldiers are kliieo cur d
Ing three days siege. Hampton anu
the girl only escape from the Indians.
They fall exhausted on the plains.
company Of the Seventh cavalry, Lieut..
Brant in command, find them. Hampton ii
and the girl stop at the Miners Home III
Glencaid, Mrs. Duffy, proprietresS; lIat III
ton talks the future over with MISS ,o III
ls-the Kid. She shows him her moth-
er's picture and tells him what she Can
Of her parentage and life. Ihey Se eide
she shall live with Mrs Herndon. Naiua
the kid-runs away from Mrs. HernooIi >
and rejoins Hampton. He induces her 10
go back. and to have nothing more 10 ne
with him. Hampton plays his last cams me
OF cards. He announces to Reo o G1 III
that he has quit, and then leaves Glen n,
caid. Miss Phoebe Spencer arrives ,; IN
Glencaid TO teach its first school. Miss
Spencer meets Nadia, Rev. Wynkoop'
etc: She boards at Mrs: Herndons s.
out his knowing who she is She INFORMS moi us
him of the coming Bachelor club pan III
honor Of Miss Spencer. Lieut.. brI az
meets Silent Murphy, Clusters scout; he
reports trouble brewing among the oiouN.
Social difficulties arise at the Bacneior
Clubs ball among the admirers OF MISS MISS
Spencer. Lieut. Brant meets MISS Speh-
Ger but she is not his acquaintance OF the
day before. She tells him of MAZDA, anu
he accidentally meets her again as ne Is
returning TO the ballroom with ran i 9I
MISS Spencer. Brant accompanies Nalqa
home from the dance. On the way she
informs him as to who she is. and that
Hampton meet. Hampton informs me
lieutenant that his attentions to MAZDA
over her that justifies the statement IT.
Brant tells Hampton of the presence OF
Silent Murphy. and the fact that fkea
Slavin receives government messages LOT
him Miss SnpnrpF called BOD t1aHlp-
ton. Tells him OF a red-faced stranger
MISLEADING her for Nadia. Brant inter
views Red Slavin. Finds that he is an eN-
trooper in the Seventh cavalry. 1t was
Slavin's and Murphy's testimony that
more than ten years before had conveyed
Robert Nolan, then captain IN the Sev-
enth of the murder of Maj. Brant. Sr
Hampton attempts to force Il confession
from Slavin. Slavin insists it is Murphy
scufFie Slavin is killed by knife thrust.
Hampton surrenders to Buck Mason
marshal. Mob attempts to capture NM;
Mason and his prisoner escape to mn
and defend themselves. Mob lights fire
TO burn them out. Brant tells MAZDA that
he loves her. She tells him there is an
insurmountable barrier between them.
but that she does not fully un5erstant
II. Brant and his troop rescues Hampton
and Mason from the fires set by the
mob. Brant carries the unconscious
gambler through the lines of fire. Hamp-
ton is taken to the hotel and Nadia comes
to nurse him. Miss Spencer accepts the
neart ana Ianu OF REV. w IlhoOP- ID q,
is ordered to take the field. Before he
goes Nadia tells him she loves him, but
cannot become his wife or offer an eX-
PLANTATION. He insists he will return to
her. Hampton goes on the trail of Silent
MURPHY, then at Cheyenne, as the one
man who can clear Capt. Nolan of the
charge of murder of Maj. Brant 10 years
before. Hampton arrives at Cheyenne
after Murphy had left with dispatches
for Custer. He follows the scout deter
! mined to wiring from him a confession
Comes within sight of Murphy on the
| edge of the Indian country.