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Two Boys in Wyoming

CHAPTER II
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Few passengers were in the habit of leaving the train at this point, so that some curiosity on the part of the loungers was natural.

Perhaps the agent at the station suspected them of being runaways whose heads had been turned by stories of wild adventure, and who had set out to annihilate the aborigines of the West; but if such a fancy came to the man, it must have vanished when he noticed their intelligent appearance and the completeness of their outfit.

Boys who start on such whimsical careers are never rightly prepared, and have no conception of the absurdity of their schemes until it is forced upon them by sad and woeful experience.
"Are you looking for any one ?" asked the agent; respectfully.
"Yes, sir," replied Jack Dudley; "we are on our way to a ranch which lies to the eastward of Camp Brown, not far from Wind River." "May I ask your errand thither ?" "My father is part owner of the ranch, and we wish to visit it for a few weeks." "Ah, you are the young men that Hank Hazletine was asking about yesterday.

He has charge of Bowman's ranch." "That's the place.

What has become of Mr.Hazletine ?" "I think he is over at the fort, and will soon be here.


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