When the deed is done, if I still think life is precious, and his friends press me too hard, I may look for safety, as you have done, with the Sioux." "Come and you shall find in me a sister, and in him a brother," cried Addie Neidic.
"_A brother ?_ I had one once," came in a low, sobbing cry from the young Texan's lips; then, with his head bowed, and scalding tears rolling down his cheeks, he drove the spurs into his horse, and sped away swiftly in the direction of the old trail.
The Black Hawk horse, saddled and bridled, but riderless, galloped on by the side of the Texan's fleet mustang, with no wish to part from his company.
"He had death in his eye! He will kill Wild Bill, and we shall never see him again," said Persimmon Bill.

"The miners are rough, and condemn before they try, and hang as soon as condemnation is spoken.

I pity the boy--for he is but a boy." Addie Neidic smiled.
"We shall see your boy again," she said, "Something seems to whisper to me that his fate is in some way linked with ours.

I, too, feel sure that he will kill Wild Bill, and then escape to join us.

And you, my hero, will rise till all these Indian nations call you king.