me," said he to the foreman. "He have joodgement."

Thus the huge, jovial Teuton took command, but found Drake had left
little for him to do. The buccaroos were dispersed at Harper's, at Fort
Rinehart, at Alvord Lake, towards Stein's peak, and at the Island Ranch
by Harney Lake. And if you know east Oregon, or the land where Chief
E-egante helped out Specimen Jones, his white soldier friend, when the
hostile Bannocks were planning his immediate death as a spy, you will
know what wide regions separated the buccaroos. Bolles was taken into Max
Vogel's esteem; also was Chinese Sam. But Max sat smoking in the office
with his boy superintendent, in particular satisfaction.

"You are a liddle r-rascal," said he. "Und I r-raise you fifty dollars."


A Kinsman of Red Cloud


I

It was thirty minutes before a June sundown at the post, and the first
call had sounded for parade. Over in the barracks the two companies and
the single troop lounged a moment longer, then laid their police litera-
ture down, and lifted their stocking feet from the beds to get ready. In
the officers' quarters the captain rose regretfully from after-dinner
digestion, and the three lieutenants sought their helmets with a sigh.
Lieutenant Balwin had been dining an unconventional and impressive guest
at the mess, and he now interrupted the anecdote which the guest was
achieving with frontier deliberation.