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THE DEPARTURE of their captain was so sudden, so unexpected, and so incomprehensible to the rangers, one and all, that for a time they all stood where they were, staring at the two departing figures, who were very soon swallowed up by a dip in the prairies.
"If I wasn't awake I'd think I was asleep," Long Bill said. "I'd think I was having a dream."