The Prairie Detective: Secret Service Series No. 24 — page 102: what you’re looking at

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100. THE PRAIRIE DETECTIVE. ~ CHAPTER X. ADVERSITY. Sycamore Dan stood an instant, irresolute, over the spot where the girls had been but a short time previously. He fully believed that they had fallen into the hands of the band of assassins who had at- tacked the camp. His first impulse was to dash out of the tent and attack the robbers single-handed, for the purpose of wresting from them the prizes they had gained. But his brain was too well balanced to allow him thus to throw away the only possible chance of liberating them. He saw in an instant what an ut- terly hopeless task such a one would be, and he cast quickly about for some substitute. Now, if Ryan were only there—— Ah! the very idea. He remembered that the scout had told him, when the tide was turning.against = them, to go as soon as possible after the fight toa spot which he indicated. There the partners would meet. 7 That seemed to be the most feasible plan, and Dan lost no time in adopting it. Bending over so as to avoid attracting attention, he @lided out of the tent, and was soon traveling at a quick gait away to the northward. Ryan’s directions, he remembered, were to go as fast as possible directly to the northward for a dis- tance of about five miles. Having done that, he was to stop and give a signal, which should be an imita- comicbooks.com —