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256 : JOSE. be intended for the redskins, and we may be just in time—away !” He hastened toward the mouth of the gulch where he found Green and the freighter already on the alert. “Be gone!” he cried. “Have your rifles ready and your knives loose; the stump of my arm is itching oddly and that is a familiar sign.” Without stopping to ask any questions the others hurriedly mounted, while Bob was eagerly listening to the occasional report of a gun drawing steadily nearer. : «“Tt is on this side of the river!” he said; “but since we are confined in here like wolves in a trap I reckon I had better just take a peep at our sur- roundings.” He was quickly off the back of his horse, and throwing the lines to the freighter, he began adroitly ascending the steep cliff at the top of which he dis- appeared. “That appears to be an encounter as fierce as any we had ourselves!” Green observed as they distinctly heard the dying sound of a as of dis- cordant howls in the distance. “T hope it will prove reliable,” ee a Bill, ex- amining the hammer of his rifle. “I have yet a score to discharge that is due to myself, unless I. care to appear ascamp in the estimation of every ill-bred Mormon.” For the space of several minutes they anxiously listened for the repetition of the sounds, when their attention was again turned toward the hunter who had stepped into view, visibly excited, and now thoughtlessly glided down into the grass. “It is the red coyotes, and the white man who is Eomichbooks (E(o)