UNSEEN FOES. 178 XXVI. FACE TO FACE WITH ENEMIES. 185 XXVII. A DISCOVERY. 194 XXVIII. A LIVING TOMB. 201 XXIX. THE RESCUE. 207 XXX. OUT OF DEVIL’S DEN. 212 XXXI. ANOTHER STRANGE STORY. 215 XXXII. UNDER A CURSE. 223 XXXIII. THE HACIENDA. 230 XXXIV. HAUNTED. 237 XXXV. THE SEARCH OF THE RUIN. 243 XXXVI. THE FIRST NIGHT. 249 XXXVII. A DEAD GHOST. 255 XXXVIII. ON SECRET WORK. 261 XXXIX. THE SCOUT’S RETURN. 270 XL. THE SHOT ON THE CLIFF. 281 XLI. THE FIGHT IN THE SLEUTHS’ CAMP. 289 XLII. A STARTLING VISIT. 302 XLIII. THE FAIR HERMIT. 310 XLIV. REVEALED. 316 IN APPRECIATION OF WILLIAM F. CODY (BUFFALO BILL). It is now some generations since Josh Billings, Ned Buntline, and Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, intimate friends of Colonel William F. Cody, used to forgather in the office of Francis S. Smith, then proprietor of the _New York Weekly_. It was a dingy little office on Rose Street, New York, but the breath of the great outdoors stirred there when these old-timers got together. As a result of these conversations, Colonel Ingraham and Ned Buntline began to write of the adventures of Buffalo Bill for Street & Smith. Colonel Cody was born in Scott County, Iowa, February 26, 1846. Before he had reached his teens, his father, Isaac Cody, with his mother and two sisters, migrated to Kansas, which at that time was little more than a wilderness. When the elder Cody was killed shortly afterward in the Kansas “Border War,” young Bill assumed the difficult rôle of family breadwinner. During 1860, and until the outbreak of the Civil War, Cody lived the arduous life of a pony-express rider. Cody volunteered his services as government scout and guide and served throughout the Civil War with Generals McNeil and A. J. Smith. He was a distinguished member of the Seventh Kansas Cavalry. During the Civil War, while riding through the streets of St. Louis, Cody rescued a frightened schoolgirl from a band of annoyers. In true romantic style, Cody and Louisa Federci, the girl, were married March 6, 1866.