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“How can I serve you, miss?”

“Permit me to ask you, general, if I can confide a secret to you and yet keep my name from you?”

“Certainly, if you wish.”

“My mission, then, sir, is one of sorrow to me, for I come to ask a favor of you.”

“Of what tenor, miss?”

“There has been captured at Pioneer Post a noted criminal, for he is an outlaw and road-agent, known as Silk Lasso Sam.”

“Yes, I have word from Colonel Dunwoody, of the fort, and that he has been sentenced to death for his crimes.”

“Is this legal, general?”

“It is justice and military law, for that prevails in that wild land of lawlessness.”

“Suppose that he were already amenable to the civil laws for crimes committed, could he not be taken from the military prison for trial East?”

“That may be, but I apprehend no such demand.”

“Nor do I, sir, only I wished to know if I should appeal to the civil or the military for permission to see this condemned man, and be with him in his last moments.”

“Ah! that is the situation, is it, miss?”

“Yes, sir.”