Carl The Trailer

fresh meat, are you? Do yo

n. When they have any fresh meat on hand they eat all

utenant Parker. He has been a pretty good young officer since he has been out here, and

e already grumbling over their diminished supply. Their commander must send out and get some more. Game of all kinds was abundant a short distance back in the mountains, but it was a little dangerous to send a body of troops out there. Something out of the usual order of things had happened within a few miles of For

quick step sounded in the hall, the doo

d eyes that looked straight into your own when he was speaking to you. He stood among the first five in his class, and upon graduation received his appointment to the -th Cavalry at Fort Scott. Of course he found army life dull, compared with the

nd this army life slo

enant with a smile. "One does no

reason for i

ng Bull is going

d I Page 4 propose to send you out i

sir," repl

it did not seem to affect Lieutenant Parker one way or the other. He knew

rgeant, two corporals, two wagons and a guide, and send you into the mountains after some f

from the States, together with a fine horse that his father had given him; but he put his rifle upon some pegs in his room

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have a chance to use it. I was in hopes I should ha

h, "or you would have found out that the buffalo have all but disappeared. There is only

telope on the pla

itting Bull gets over his antics. It won't do for a small compan

h. "I have asked him twice to let me go out but he has

ut to try his skill on some of the big game that Page 6 was always to be found in th

ed the colonel with a smile. "You appear to thin

e want; but if you can give me a guide who will show me where t

rl, the Trai

ten seen him about the fort,

with the captain who went out two weeks ago," said the colonel, turning to his com

stand against the whole body of the Sioux, but he could run, holding a tight rein in the meantime, until he came to a clear spot free from gullies and underbrush, and there he could dismount his command and make the best fight possible. If he wasn't back at the fort in a week a company would be sent out to look for him; but suppose he was found dead and scalped? Lieutenant Parker thought of thi

d fill up one of those wagons with game and send it to the fort with six men, commanded by the corporal. He knows the way and

. Parker told himself that he was glad that Carl was going with him as guide, for he would h

, and his blue eyes, as he turned them from one to another of the occupants of the room, did not express the least surprise that he had been Page 9 called upon to go on a dangerous mission. He supposed that the colonel wished to send him to Standing Rock Agency with dispatches, and he was rea

"and all ready to go on to Fort Yates,

Lieutenant Parker?" ask

t I don't know him,"

, the Trailer, the name by which you will p

pped it, and then turned his Page 10 face toward the colonel and waited for him to go on and explain what he wanted done. There were two things about it, Lieutenant Parker told himse

n to the foothills and get some fres

irst time that he had taken a fair view of him. He surveyed him all over, from his boots to his h

ieutenant will do?"

get after him and tear him up," r

1 River, can't you? Very well. You may get ready, and the commissary will find the wagons

The officer looked into the lieutenant's face as he took his chair again, an

o you think of Carl,

ir," replied the lieutenant. "He doesn't h

I," said t

to this. He looked at the colonel, and

ame every time he sees it," continued the officer. "Do your part of the work

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low was never born and

age? He was born in this country, about forty mil

sir. Has this Carl, the Tra

orses, guns and excitement. I guess he has seen plenty of it. His father died about two years a

ss at all like a

too sorry to see him deliver up his life, for then the property would come Page 13 into their possession. But he bears a charmed existence in spite of all they can do. I guess I have told you everything I could think of, and you may as well get ready and go on. Rememb

this as a hint that he wanted the interview brought to a c