. Butcher's pioneer history of Custer County : and short sketches of early days in Nebraska . prompted Nolan to do the very thing which Gatlin was prayinghe would not do. At any rate, Nolan turned his head just as they wererounding the ])romontory and his eagle eye detected the two horsemensilhouetted against the horizon. Turning to Gatlin he said fiercely: Those two devils you had with you are following us. That cant be, replied Gatlin, putting a bold face on the matter; theywent back to the ranch; let us hurry on and get to the end of our journey. Nolan was not fully assured of the hone
. Butcher's pioneer history of Custer County : and short sketches of early days in Nebraska . prompted Nolan to do the very thing which Gatlin was prayinghe would not do. At any rate, Nolan turned his head just as they wererounding the ])romontory and his eagle eye detected the two horsemensilhouetted against the horizon. Turning to Gatlin he said fiercely: Those two devils you had with you are following us. That cant be, replied Gatlin, putting a bold face on the matter; theywent back to the ranch; let us hurry on and get to the end of our journey. Nolan was not fully assured of the honesty of his traveling mate. Herode moodily along for some time without uttering a word, and then, sud-denly reining u]> his horse, he said: AND SHORT SKETCHES OF DAYS IN NEBRASKA. 103 See here, (latliii; you cjuri put up any job on nie; these fellows arefollowinii us and you know it. 1 dont know anything; of the kind, and 1 care less; (he best thiiii: wecan do is to keej* on out of their way. Not by a d— si^ht; you cant play nie for a suck(M. Now you ^o yourwav and Ill <2o View of the D. O. Luce Cedar Canon, near New Helena, in Custer County, Neb. (Jatlin could do nothing but accjuiesce, for he knew that further expostu-lation would be fruitless. He did not dare to rejoin Woods and Wheat aslong as Nolan was in sight, so he switched off and went over to ^ictoriacreek to stay all night with George Carr. As he was riding through the hillssouth of the creek he saw a man driving a small team of mides directly acrosshis path, evidently attempting to head him off. The man was standing upin his buggy and had a Winchester in his hand. It being almost dark by thistime, Gatlin did not recognize the man until he came quite close to him, andthen found himself face to face with Dick James, sheriff of Dawson county,who had been following Gatlin for some time, mistaking him foi Nolan, ofwhom he was iji ]iursuit. 104 PIONEER HISTORY OF CUSTER COUNTY The two luiiiji old frie
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