This was the opinion of everybody who heard of this act of reparation on the part of the runaway. It made him more popular in the settlement than he had ever been while he was at home. People now remembered of reading in the newspapers a long account of the coolness and courage he had exhibited on the night the Sam Kendall was burned; and some of those who had had the most to say about Bob, when he first ran away, now began to see that there were some good things in him, and predicted that he would come out all right in the end. Bob is in the army now. He is on the plains, among the Indians, right where he wanted to be; but he would be glad, indeed, if he were a long way from there. The only thing that prevented him from being with General Custer, when that gallant soldier and his command were massacred by Sitting Bull and his warriors, was the receipt of an order, that very morning, detailing him as one of the guard of a wagon-train. Bob doesn’t think as much of that wild country as he did once. His feelings have undergone a very great change since the day he stole the money belonging to the Mail Carrier.
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