153 XXV. A VILLAIN IN FLIGHT. 159 XXVI. STARTLING NEWS. 163 XXVII. THE SKY MIRROR. 169 XXVIII. BARLOW AND THE GIRL. 181 XXIX. A DARING RUSE. 192 XXX. THE CHEYENNE STAMPEDE. 200 XXXI. THE THEFT OF THE NUGGETS. 208 XXXII. ALCOHOL AND ELOQUENCE. 216 XXXIII. A KINDLY WARNING. 223 XXXIV. LURED INTO DANGER. 230 XXXV. MOBBED AND THREATENED. 239 XXXVI. THE WESTERN DEAD SHOT. 245 XXXVII. THE MAN WHO INTERFERED. 249 XXXVIII. DENTON AND DELAND. 253 XXXIX. IN A WEB OF LIES. 259 XL. THE RAIN MAKER. 272 XLI. A GIRL’S HEROISM. 284 XLII. ANOTHER STOOL PIGEON. 292 XLIII. THE CAPTURE OF PANTHER PETE. 297 XLIV. THE GIRL’S FLIGHT. 304 XLV. THE FLAG OF TRUCE. 311 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.