"Stella was wounded," cried Ted. "Where is she? Scatter, men, and find
her. She cannot be far away. If anything has happened to her, some one
will suffer."
CHAPTER XXXI.
STELLA A CAPTIVE.
We will leave Ted and the broncho boys, to follow the misadventures of
Stella.
After securing Magpie, which was taken back to the cow camp by Kit, who,
much against his inclinations, was compelled to go into retirement until
his arm healed, Ted released old man Norris, who secured a pony and rode
rapidly out of town.
When Stella fell from the back of her pony to the road she became
insensible. A ball from the weapon of one of Shan Rhue's gang had
clipped a lock of hair from her forehead, creasing the skull. By a
miracle her life was saved, for the merest fraction of an inch lay
between her and death.
During the hurly-burly of the fight, and as Ted was grasped in the
powerful arms of Shan Rhue, one of the gang rushed up to her as she lay
in the dust and picked her up.
He was a powerful man, and carried Stella's light body as if she had
been a child.
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