“I am.”
“And I am not.”
“Well, we shall see what cause you have.”
“Fire away.”
“The Surgeon Scout did not try to frighten me.”
“What then?”
“He did me a kindness, as after all I had risked and done for you he did not wish me to see you hanged.”
“He is very kind.”
There was a sneer in the man’s tones.
“You misunderstand him, as I will prove to you. He told me that he had been sent East by Colonel Dunwoody under orders, and that fearful of an attack upon the coach, to rescue you—for my men were not suspected of being treacherous, except that they might be bribed to release you, detectives though they were supposed to be—Buffalo Bill had decided to follow the coach, and did so.”