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Riley was the most self-possessed and solemnly deliberate person in the republic. He stopped, looked his man over from head to foot, and finally said: "I am Mr. Riley. Did you happen to be looking for me?" "That's just what I was doing," said the man, joyously, "and it's the biggest luck in the world that I've found you. My name is Lykins. I'm one of the teachers of the high school San Francisco.
"Night before last on the six-fifteen, and me getting home late from the Epworth meeting fire out not a stick of kindling-wood in only two cakes in the buttery, neither of them a layer not a frying-size chicken on the place thank goodness he didn't have the appetite he used to though in another way it's just downright heartbreaking to see a person you care for not be a ready eater but I had some of the plum jell he used to like, and the good half of an apple-John which I at once het up and I sent Mehitty Lykins down for some chops "
There was a pause and a silence except the noise of the wind and the pelting snow. Mr. Lykins said, impatiently: "Well?" Riley said: "Well, that was thirty years ago." "Very well, very well what of it?" "I'm great friends with that old patriarch. He comes every evening to tell me good-by.
But there it may not stay; on and yet on it rushes, as helpless as heedless, till one day it finds itself plunged into some foul current carrying the off-scourings of half a continent. So on and down plunged Doc; from stealing Indian ponies to lifting ranch horses was no long leap in his new code. Then our stock Association got busy and Billy Lykins took his trail.
Lykins against an iron fence, buttonholed him, fastened him with his eye, like the Ancient Mariner, and proceeded to unfold his narrative as placidly and peacefully as if we were all stretched comfortably in a blossomy summer meadow instead of being persecuted by a wintry midnight tempest: "I will tell you about that man. It was in Jackson's time. Gadsby's was the principal hotel, then.
The following churches reported themselves as having been organized in the Territory: No. of Members. Pardee, Atchison Co 92 Union Church, Atchison Co 60 Leavenworth City 70 Big Springs, Douglas Co 72 Prairie City, Douglas Co 44 Peoria City, Lykins Co 23 Leroy, Coffey Co 108 Emporia 80 Stanton, Lykins Co 91 Iola, Allen Co 21 Humbolt, Allen Co. 12 Burlington, Coffey Co 9 Wolf Creek, Doniphan Co 70
A few weeks later Doc had assembled a strong gang about him, rendezvoused on the Piney, a tributary of the lower Niobrara. There he was far east of Lykins's bailiwick, but a good many degrees within Lykins's disposition to quit his trail. One morning Llewellyn and Hassard started up the creek, mounted, on a scout, leaving Lykins and his horse hidden in the brush near the trail.
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