“Such was the communication that Captain Caruth brought me from him.”
“Well, sir, I went to see him, and I was there fully an hour. Though he did not say as much, he is most deeply interested in a young woman in Pocket City, and he has written her a letter which he wished me to send to her by courier.”
“Indeed?”
“I, of course, would do nothing without consulting you, and so said to him that I would take the letter and send it through if possible.”
“You have the letter, Miss Nina?”
“Here it is, sir.”
The colonel glanced at the address and said:
“It is to Bonnie Belle, one of the most remarkable characters in this land of strange people.
“She is a young and very beautiful girl, I have heard, for I have never seen her; but I have heard much of her through Surgeon Frank Powell, Captain Caruth and Buffalo Bill, who know her well.”
“What do they say of her, sir?”