WE PART FROM FRIENDS 



yellow fox, worth twenty-five cents each. At 

 these figures, the entire lot should bring us some- 

 thing over twenty-six hundred dollars. On Tom's 

 advice I offered the whole to Weisselbaum for 

 twenty-five hundred, but he seemed to think he 

 could get them for less and held off. 



One day when negotiations had reached this 

 stage. Kitchen's mule train rolled in and camped 

 near us. This brought business to a focus with 

 Weisselbaum and he immediately hurried down 

 to our camp, accepted my offer, and wrote me out 

 a check on Clark & Gruber* (M. E. Clark & E. H. 

 Gruber), bankers of Leavenworth city, for twenty- 

 five hundred dollars. In addition to this, I drew 

 from his safe the three hundred and fifty dollars 

 that we had deposited with him. 



It is a well-known fact that in the dry, pure 

 atmosphere of the plains, flesh wounds heal with 

 astonishing rapidity. It may have been, in Tom's 

 case, that the satisfactory closing up of our busi- 

 ness affairs had something to do with it, but about 

 this time Jack and I were astonished as well as 

 pleased to see Tom come Hmping into camp and 

 report for duty. 



Bill had sent word by Tom that he. Captain 

 Saunders, and Lieutenant Wilson were coming 

 down to take supper with us, and just after retreat 

 all three rode into camp accompanied by Found. 



*This firm about this time minted private gold coins known as 

 Pike's Peak coins. 



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