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In a few weeks Bannack was as bad as Lewiston or Florence had ever been. In fact, it became so bad that the Vigilantes began to show their teeth, although they confined their sentences to banishment. The black sheep and the white began now to be segregated. Plummer, shrewd to see the drift of opinion, saw that he must now play his hand out to the finish, that he could not now reform.
This clerk and these deputies killed one Dillingham, whom they suspected of informing a friend of a robbery planned to make away with him on the trail from Bannack to Virginia City. They were "tried" by the court and freed. Hayes Lyons admitted privately that Plummer had told him to kill the informer Dillingham.
It was a wide tent with the front canvas cut out and a shelf-counter across the opening. There was a dim, yellow lamplight. Half a dozen men lounged in front, and inside were several more, two of whom appeared to be armed guards. Jim addressed no one in particular. "When does the next stage leave for Bannack?" A man looked up sharply from the papers that littered a table before him.
Prospectors are workin' in hordes down from Bannack. All the gulches an' valleys in the Bear Mountains have their camps. Surface gold everywhere an' easy to get where there's water. But there's diggin's all over. No big strike yet. It's bound to come sooner or later.
West Bannack and East Bannack were now all the cry. To these new points, as may be supposed, the organized band of robbers fled with the others. Plummer, who had tried Elk City, Deer Lodge, and other points, now appeared at Bannack. One after another reports continued to come of placers discovered here and there in the upper Rockies.
Care was not even taken to conceal the bodies of the victims, which were left as food for the wolves by the roadside. Next year, the discovery of richer mines at Virginia left Bannack a deserted village of hardly two hundred people.
I'd want you to do the same by me.... But fetchin' the girl into the deal " Kells's passionate and menacing gesture shut Pearce's lips. He lifted a hand, resignedly, and went out. "Jim," said Kells, earnestly, "take my hunch. Hide your nugget. Don't send it out with the stage to Bannack. It'd never get there.... And change the place where you sleep!" "Thanks," replied Cleve, brightly.
They were on horseback, and so could carry small provisions; but in some way they pushed on deeper and deeper into the mountains, until they got to the Bannack river, where they were attacked by Indians and chased into a country none of them knew. At last they got over east as far as the Soda Springs on the Bear river, where they were on well-known ground.
"This fellow Creede wears a heavy belt of gold. Blicky never makes a mistake. Creede's partner left on yesterday's stage for Bannack. He'll be gone a few days. Creede is a hard worker-one of the hardest. Sometimes he goes to sleep at his supper. He's not the drinking kind. He's slow, thick-headed. The best time for this job will be early in the evening just as soon as his lights are out.
If we buy horses or wait for the stage we'll have to see men here and I'm afraid " "But, Joan, there'll be bandits along the road sure. And the trails, wherever they are, would be less safe." "Let's travel by night and rest by day." "That won't do, with so far to go and no pack." "Then part of the way." "No. We'd better take the stage for Bannack. If it starts at all it'll be under armed guard.
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