“Who was that man?” Buffalo Bill demanded.
“Lieutenant Barlow.”
“And the girl?”
“The one that lived in the sod house out on the prairie—Arlington’s girl.”
The scout released him.
“Lie there, and if you make any sound, when I come back it will be the worse for you.”
Buffalo Bill leaped away, going once more in the direction which Barlow seemed to have taken the girl.
CHAPTER XXV.
A VILLAIN IN FLIGHT.
Lieutenant Joel Barlow was clever in his flight.
He knew that it was Buffalo Bill who had appeared at the corner of the wall, and with whom he had left Smallpox Dave fighting. And he feared the scout above all other men, for Buffalo Bill was noted as a hater of wrongs of all kinds, and as a relentless punisher of wrongdoers.