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what the great and powerful manito reserves a long and good hunting on the celestial grasslands to the brave red arrow!

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dig the pit for the totem!

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eagle of the night! You are the head of the navajoses now! To you the ax. Bury her/it with the blade in low if you want to drive the tribe on the dentiero of peace...

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... and bury her/it aloft with the blade if you intend to drive the navajoses on the red path of war.

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eagle of the night wants the peace between the navajoses and the other tribes of the red people... and wants to respect the peace between the navajoses and the pale faces!

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but doesn't intend nevertheless that the navajoses bear offense some from other tribes, and therefore buried rà the ax with the right blade!

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... and what the spirit of red arrow protects the warlike navajoses and gives wisdom to eagle of the night!

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bury the ax!

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buried the corpse of red arrow, tex returns to the village, followed by kit and by the warlike navajoses, and in the following days it receives the yisita of many heads of villages of the near reserves, come to make free to the new head navajo, and to tighten with him pacts of friendship.

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to: two weeks later...

b: the herd for the ranch "cafe-t" you/he/she is assembled. Almost three thousand heads of livestock are ready to the sources of bitter spring.

C: bueno! You choose same about twenty warriors to accompany the herd.

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to: us three will precede them to the ranch of the lady delaney to give her good news.

B: small buck and black elk, his/her brother, has asked me the honor of accompagnart!

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to: also foot of bear has asked me the other day if could come with us!

B: devil! Seem me that a good halves the village wants to go for a walk!

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to: satisfy them dad! The navajoses are in peace with everybody, and there are no danger to portar with us a pò of warriors.

B: and it is all right. Warn them you, tiger jack and day theirs that is held ready to depart among a hour. And he/she also sends a messenger to bitter spring to start the herd.

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a, hour later tex, kit, tiger and the three warriors of escort leave the village navajo...

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to: ... and, after three days of trip without accidents, they finally come on the pastures of the ranch "cafe-t."

B: still a mezz'ora of gallop and then we can enjoy a good rest.

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to: but, comes not too far from the ranch, tex and his/her companions they are seen an unexpected show.

B: for centomila devils! The destroyed ranch!

C: plague!

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halt!... what a foot of bear, elk black and small buck looks for traces around the farm. Me, kit and tiger jack will look for nell 'I intern, among the ruins!

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to: and shortly after...

b: be they-wang! I recognize him/it despite the fire has horribly charred him/it!

C: dad, look! On the right wall of the fireplace!

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poor they-wang! Has had the time and the strength to write on the bricks the name of his/her assassin!

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on the traces of nellie calep text by g.l. bonelli

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to: has succeeded in writing only a part of the name dell 'I murder, but is how much enough for us, and redmond will pay its crime to dear price!

B: dad! Do you believe that has also killed nellie delaney?

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I hope really of no, kit! In every case we will know him/it soon.

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to: well? ... do you find traces?

B: ugh!

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traces old of three or four days. ten strong horses come by great path... faces pale arrivals dayanti house...

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to: ... wparato many hits... hits of small rifle... then found traces of small feet... feet of white squaw... squaw white slope on horse...

b: mmm... just as I thought. Redmond has abducted nellie!

C: poor nellie!

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to: where are the traces of the pale faces direct?

B: toward red mountains. Must black elk follow her?

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not immediately! The white squaw is not in immediate danger. After all, the sunset is nearby, and you would owe interrrompere the pursuit.

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we think instead about burying the poor man they-wang, and then to rest us. Tomorrow it attends us a long ride.

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to: dad! Are you sure that they won't hurt nellie?

B: I am certain of it. Redmond is a criminal but not a fool!

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to: to kill nellie would not serve to anything. Redmond will look for instead of cola sale of the ranch.

B: a big scoundrel, that redmond!

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to: not less scoundrel dell 'illustrious signor brawley, the truth person responsible of the bad lucks poor oella nellie.

B: I hope that will do yourself a duty to get an indigestion of I fall to both that gentlemen!

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to: I will first of all do me a duty to free nellie, to the rest we will think about his/her time.

B: ugh! Aquila of the night speaks from wise!

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consumed a frugal supper, tex and his/her companions they wind him in their spread out covers near the ruins of the ranch, and shortly they fall asleep, but their sleep doesn't last very...

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to: eagle of the night...

b: what is there?

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to: horses! ... many horses! Come I pour of us!

B: umh!

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be right! Draw near more and more!

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to: soon! You extinguish the fire and withdrawn you behind the ruins of the ranch...

b: ugh!

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to: perhaps they are the men of the ranch of I return from cedar city!

B: can give him, but in every case I don't want to take risks!

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to: in the same moment...

b: bill there is something that not ya to the ranch!... I have seen a little while ago actually very well the fire to... and now have extinguished him!

C: let's hold the open eyes hombres!

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it shoots a pair of hits sam. If everything is in order, the old one they-wang will do him alive!

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bang bang

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answer to the fire contemplating tall! Whoever are that gentlemen, they will understand that are not prepared to joke!

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bang bang

to: acc...

b: cribbio!

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hey, down there of the ranch! Does thing jump you in head, curse?!

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to: the voice of bill paine!

B: six you, bill?

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sure! The boys and I of I return! ...

is it this the manniera to welcome the friends?

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is firm where are! ... I will make to turn on the fire... and will come before only when I will tell you him me! If everything is in order I will see him/it me same!

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to: comes me a hit if I understand there something! Does thing take you tex?

B: will know him/it to his/her time, bill!

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to: and when the flames illuminate to sufficiency the ground for a beautiful line...

b: come before, bill! ... the others will follow you to distance of winds meters!

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cribbio! If the eyes not me giuocano an ugly draught, the ranch has gone to the devil!

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one after the other all the men of the ranch come near the fire and tex, certain by now that everything is in order, it goes out from behind the ruins and him it makes meeting to bill and the cowboyses...

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to: hi, tex! ... I now start to make I count me of your way to act! Have you/they made plaza cleaning up, true?

B: can see him/it you same, bill! You/he/she has been standing only the fireplace of stone.

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to: you there were, tex, when you/they have done this damned job?

B: naturally no, bill! There had been even!

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to: have arrived just before today's sunset, and only in time to bury the poor man they-wang!

B: and... the lady delaney?

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to: disappearance! And I believe that must sweat for throwing her/it out of the claws of redmond!

B: it almost seems impossible that that dog has dared so much.

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to: yet I have the tests that you/he/she has been really him. The poor man they-wang you/he/she has written the name of it on a stone of the fireplace, before dying... and a dying person doesn't lie.

B: curse! And to think that I was so happy to return to the ranch. The sale of the livestock has gone very well.

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to: well! Don't demoralize you bill. Domattina adremo to adairville to extinguish the mortgage to the bank, will give then us to do for the rest!

B: tex! I am afraid for the lady delaney

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do you believe that if I feared that something serious the threat, of it calm and traquillo I would be here?

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to: don't fear, bill! Before strainer twenty-four hours the lady delaney won't have to fear alcunchè of anymore serious.

B: god listens to yourself tex!

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To: the night goes by without other accidents, and to the first lights of the dawn...

B: black elk, small buck and you will follow the traces of the men that have abducted the white squaw!

C: ugh!

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To: you, foot of bear, will go instead I meet to the warriors that the herd accompanies, and you will tell them to expedite the march and to hold the eyes well opened. Does understand?

B: ugh!

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To: come, dad coffee is ready!

B: I come!

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To: another thing you must remember you you, black elk and you, small buck. When you will have found the men that have captured the white squaw, you won't owe in any case to betray your presence, one of you will stay in the proximities, and the other one immediately will return here.

B: ugh!

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One minute later, the three warriors get further earth abdomen...

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To: ... tex reaches the others close to the fire.

B: when we depart for adairville?

C: I will just have washed the stomach with this kind of warm water.