"We will overtake an ambulance in an hour, and then I will transfer him to one of them."
"May I be permitted to attend upon him?" asked Alibamo.
"Would it be a great gratification to you?"
"Oh! yes; very great!"
"Then you shan't. Now speak of him no more."
In a short time an ambulance was overtaken, and Branch said:
"Place Hayward in that ambulance. If he is carried on horseback, he will die, and I shall lose my revenge!"
"Let me handle the darn skunk!" said one of the party, as he advanced through the crowd. "I'm used to handlin' just such darned skunks as he is!"
"Be careful!" said Branch, as this peculiar looking object lifted Hayward from the horse.
"Oh! guess there's no occasion to be too careful. Such dam skunks as him ain't so easy killed."