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THE RIDER OF THE BLACK HORSE
still may be able to make a good report for us. Have you no coat?" he suddenly inquired.
"No, sir. They cut mine when they took my letter."
"Very well. I 'll have one for you. Take these letters and conceal them so that not even Claud Brown can find them. By the way, if you will get him for us we will never refer again to the letter which you lost on your way up. Now, young man, be careful and don't stop anywhere for anything unless you are obliged to do so."
Robert Dorlon received the letters, and at once departed from the fort to secure his horse and begin his unexpected return to the army in New Jersey.
