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mended. Stub wore a pistol, the mate to Hugh Menaugh's, borrowed from the lieutenant.
They had tramped about six miles, had just wounded a deer and were trailing it, when the lieutenant suddenly exclaimed:
"Halt. Be quiet. Somebody's coming."
Two strangers, horseback, were topping a rise, half a mile before and a little on the right or west.
