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The fact that Sam Barringford had been captured by the Indians filled Dave with consternation. He had fully expected that the old frontiersman would be able to evade the red men and return to where he had started from without much difficulty.
"Poor Sam," he murmured, as he saw his old friend surrounded and made a prisoner. "This is the worst yet!"