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“I don’t know what to think of it yet,” answered the scout, with a troubled frown.

“Wild Bill was hyar, an’ vanished last night.”

“He vanished with a man called J. Algernon Smith. If we’re to believe Spangler, both Smith and Hickok departed unexpectedly. It looks bad, on the face of it, but——”

The rear of the stable was open. As the scout looked in, he saw and recognized Wild Bill’s horse.

“Et’s Wild Bill’s animile, shore enough,” muttered Nomad, following the scout’s eyes with his own. “Hickok wouldn’t pull out ter go any great distance without his hoss.”

“It wouldn’t seem so,” the scout answered, leading Bear Paw into an empty stall.

Removing the saddle, he rubbed Bear Paw down carefully with the saddle-blanket, then tore off a layer of hay from a bale, and loosened it out in the manger.

Nomad, deeply thoughtful, had been caring for his own horse in the same way.

Presently the pards left the stable and walked back to the front of the hotel.

Spangler was again seated on his chairs, plying the fan. He was talking with a man in a long linen duster.