FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   21   22   23   24   25   26   27   28   29   30   31   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   43   44   45  
46   47   48   49   50   51   52   53   54   55   56   57   58   59   60   61   62   >>  
by man, and forsaken by Heaven!" "It's safer to come by night than by day, for you and for me, Bill," she said. "And I couldn't bear you should go away again till I had seen you. And I've brought you a lot of things I know you'll need." "I shall not need much of anything, Addie, on the trail I'm soon to take. Your friend here I know is safe, or I wouldn't say so much. But the truth is, the reds are going to rise in a body all over the north and northwest, and we'll sweep the Black Hills, and clean out every 'blue-coat' that is sent to check the rising. The Sioux have made me a big chief, and I'll have my hands full. If you hear of the 'White Elk,' as second only to Sitting Bull himself, you'll know who it is." "You, of course!" "Yes, Addie; that is the name they have given me. And if the Sioux fight as I think they will, and all the northern tribes join, we'll force a treaty that will give us all the Black Hills and the Yellowstone, Powder River, and Big Horn Country for ourselves forever. Then, my girl, and not till then, can I make a safe home for you, and not till then will I ask you to be my wife. For then the outlaw will be safe, and can live in peace, and look for days of home and happiness." "Bill, when you ask it, be it in peace or war, I am yours. You are brave as the bravest, and had you never been treated wrongfully, would not now be a hunted outlaw. I love you, and you know it." "Yes, Addie, and I love you too well to ask you to share my lot till I can see some sunshine. But this stranger has news for me." Persimmon Bill turned to the Texan, who had drawn his horse away a little, so as not to intrude on the conversation between the lovers. "I have the news you asked for," said Jack. "The party, all told, who will start at nine or ten in the morning, and camp twenty miles out to-morrow, number twenty-nine men, all well armed, the most of them with repeating rifles and six-shooters. Half of them are old scouts, the rest are miners, gamblers, and a couple of them are traders. They have fifty animals, saddle and pack, and carry no wagons. The mules are loaded pretty heavy, at least them that belong to the traders, and are well worth capture." "All right, And there is one of the party you don't want hurt until he is in your hands?" "Yes, that man is Wild Bill. I want him in my power so that I may see him die slowly, surely, awfully!" "There is another man in that party, Bill, who mustn't be
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   21   22   23   24   25   26   27   28   29   30   31   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   43   44   45  
46   47   48   49   50   51   52   53   54   55   56   57   58   59   60   61   62   >>  



Top keywords:

traders

 

outlaw

 

twenty

 

turned

 

wagons

 

Persimmon

 

intrude

 

conversation

 

lovers

 

stranger


hunted

 

treated

 

wrongfully

 

slowly

 

surely

 

sunshine

 

scouts

 

shooters

 
capture
 

loaded


miners

 
pretty
 

couple

 

belong

 

gamblers

 

rifles

 

repeating

 

saddle

 

morning

 
morrow

number
 

animals

 

Yellowstone

 

wouldn

 
friend
 
rising
 
northwest
 

forsaken

 
Heaven
 

couldn


things

 

brought

 

forever

 

Country

 

Powder

 

bravest

 

happiness

 

Sitting

 

treaty

 

tribes