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From the first Billy Cody hated him, and did not pretend to hide the fact; but it seemed the boy's intuitive reading of human nature, as much as his jealousy on account of Nannie Vennor. One day Billy was seated by the side of a small stream fishing.
"Nonsense; he died shortly after, and the will says if Richard Vennor was not found, and the fortune turned over to him, within five years after Robert Vennor's death, the fortune was to go to charity. "Now I kept the secret dark, came out to look up Richard Vennor, and having found him, shall marry his daughter and get all!" "Your wife will give you trouble."
But she had been over to call on the Cody girls with her brother, and a deep attachment at once sprung up between the boys, and Billy became the devoted slave of Nannie, making her a horse-hair bridle for her pony, gathering her wild flowers whenever he went over to the Vennor farm, and in fact being as devoted in his attentions as a young man of twenty-one could have been.
As is often the case with boys, Billy fell in love with Nannie Vennor, which was the young lady's name, although she at eighteen was just seven years older than he was.
"Oh, it's you, you accursed imp of Satan," cried the man angrily. "Yes, it's me, and I want you to go to Mr. Vennor, for I'm going to tell him all I heard you say," said the boy boldly. Hugh Hall knew Billy's reputation as a fearless boy and a sure shot, and he saw that he was in great danger; but he said quietly: "Well, I was going to the farmer's and we'll ride together."
Then, while farmer Vennor remained by the body, Billy went for the nearest neighbors, and ere nightfall Hugh Hall was buried, and his two allies in crime were captured in Leavenworth, and given warning to leave Kansas forever, which they were glad to do, for they had not expected such mercy at the hands of the enraged farmers.
"I tell you, pards," said Hugh Hall, "I cannot longer delay then, so if old Vennor refuses to let me have Nannie I'll just take her." "The best way, Hugh; but what about the wife that's now on your trail?" asked one. "What care I for her, after I have run off with Nannie?" "But she'll blow on you to old man Vennor." "I do not care.
"I wonder if it would be wrong if I killed him, when he is such a villain!" he muttered. "Yes, I won't do it; but I'll make him go straight to Mr. Vennor and I'll tell him all I heard. "Here, Hugh Hall, farmer Vennor wants to see you." The man sprung to his feet, his hand upon his revolver. But Billy had taken the precaution to get behind a tree, and had the drop on his rival.
But before they left they confessed that Billy's story was a true one, and told where the wife of Hugh Hall could be found, and once again did the boy become a hero, even in the eyes of the bravest men, and the settlers gave him the name of Boss Boy Billy, while Nannie Vennor, now a mother of grown sons, each Christmas time sends him a little souvenir, to show him that she has not forgotten her boy lover who fought his first duel to save her from a villain.
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