CHAPTER I.THE AVENGER.
"Bill! Wild Bill! Is this you, or your ghost? What, in great Creation's name, are you doing here?"
"Gettin' toward sunset, old pard–gettin' toward sunset, before I pass in my checks!"
The first speaker was an old scout and plainsman, Sam Chichester by name, and he spoke to a passenger who had just left the west-ward-bound express train at Laramie, on the U.P.R.R.
That passenger was none other than J. B. Hickok, or...
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