"Do as he says, and quickly." Seated in the train again, Crispin Mayo leaned his head against the back of the seat and put his hat over his eyes. "Do not disturb me until we're there," he said to Rep, and went to sleep. The whistle whined lonesomely against the dying night, and the steam engine chugged away, dragging its many--eyed dragon behind. Far out upon the prairie, Justin Parley watched it go. "There will be another day," he said, "and soon." Chapter Ten Fort Sanders was a frontier settlement, formerly known as Fort John Buford, established to protect the tie--cutters and grading crews working west of Cheyenne. A few squatters had appeared before the railroad, but by the time the rails reached the site there were several hundred buildings, shacks and cabins of logs, sod, canvas, railroad ties and old wagon boxes, near the fort, and within hours Laramie, as it now called itself, was a booming town. Crispin Mayo and Reppato Pratt stood on the narrow platform at what passed for the station.
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