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“I have ordered your supper brought to my dining-room, Deadshot Dean, so come in here, for I know that you have news for me.”

“I have, indeed, Bonnie Belle,” was the answer.

“When did you get back?”

“To-night. I came by my cabin, but would not stop to get supper, for I was anxious to see you.”

“You went to the fort?”

“I did, but following the trail of that map, found in the room of the gambler whom I was forced to kill, I met Buffalo Bill and Surgeon Powell on the war-path, and guided them, with a party of soldiers, to the retreat of the outlaws.”

“And captured them?”

“Yes, or killed them.”

“And Silk Lasso Sam?” quickly asked the woman, her face showing intense anxiety as she asked the question.

“Was captured.”

“And where is he now?”

“A prisoner at Pioneer Post.”

“He will be hanged, of course?”

“Yes, for his crimes are many, as you know, and he was immediately sentenced, before I left the fort, to die upon the gallows, along with his men who had been captured.”

“Alas! my poor, sinful brother, he deserves the shameful fate that he is to meet, and from which I have in vain striven hard to save him.” The tears came into the beautiful eyes of Bonnie Belle, while Deadshot Dean said: