“Don’t jest over that, Dick.”
“Pshaw! I’m not jesting. I spotted her only this morning—and stayed my hand. Otherwise she would be walking behind my chariot.”
“White Antelope out this way?” exclaimed Cody wonderingly.
“She sure was.”
“Then there’s something afoot among the Sioux. We must look into this.”
“But first the road-agents?”
“Yes. First we’ll serve Boyd Bennett.”
CHAPTER XIX.
DANFORTH’S HAND IS STAYED AGAIN.
It was decided, however, that the entire troop would return with the stage-coach to the scene of the original hold-up. Although Bennett had been driven off so successfully by the bluecoats, Buffalo Bill feared that he might meet up with the scalping party that had killed the paymaster and his guard, and take his gang over to this spot to search for the pay-chest that he was so sure his old enemy, the scout, had hidden.