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Updated: June 13, 2025
Lonergan is a sadly broken man, having passed through much evil after his experiences on the Border and in Mexico in your company. Indeed, his whole life has been one of privation and hardship. Now, bent with years, he has been obliged to seek refuge with some of his ancient comrades at Bylittle.
It was Pete, the man who had been orderly at the Soldiers' Home, at Bylittle, Mississippi, and who had frankly owned to coming to the Panhandle for the purpose of robbing Captain Dan Rugley. The girl of the ranges was much puzzled what to do in this emergency.
This was Frances' unspoken thought. She let Molly step nearer. Trees overhung the place. She saw that it was as secret a spot as she had seen along the river side, and her thought flashed to Pete, the ex-orderly of the Bylittle Soldiers' Home. Then she turned in her saddle suddenly and saw the very man standing near her, rifle in hand. His leering smile frightened her.
He'd keep 'em under his own eye. He wouldn't trust a bank like he would himself. Humph! I know his kind. "Why," continued Pete, excitedly, "that old feller at Bylittle is another one just like him. These old-timers dug gold, and made their piles half a dozen times, and never trusted banks there warn't no banks!" "Not in them days," admitted Ratty. "But there's a plenty now."
"I'll go after him! I'll hire a private car! My goodness! I'll hire a whole train if it's necessary to get him out of that Bylittle place! That's what I'll do! "And he shall live here with us so he shall! He and I will divide this treasure just as I've been aching to do for years. You shall have jewels then, my girl!" "But, dear!" gasped Frances, "you are not well enough to go so far."
She heard from the chaplain of the Bylittle Soldiers' Home the day before she was to start on her brief journey, and she sent José Reposa with a long prepaid telegraph message to the station, arranging for a private car in which Jonas P. Lonergan was to travel from Mississippi to the Panhandle. She hoped the chaplain would come with him. About the ex-orderly of the home the letter said nothing.
She sat down that very hour and wrote to the Reverend Decimus Tooley, explaining why she, instead of Captain Rugley, wrote, and requesting that Jonas Lonergan be made ready for the trip from Bylittle to Jackleg, in the Panhandle, where a carriage from the Bar-T Ranch would meet him.
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