The papers which I had were in the saddlebag safe.

But the saddlebags and cantenas lying on the floor at the head of his cot had certainly been moved.

He recalled distinctly having, the previous evening, piled the cantenas on top of the saddlebags.

And now the saddlebags were on top of the cantenas.

There were Jack Harpe's saddlebags, cantenas, and rifle in a corner.

Racey returned to his own room, tossed his cantenas and saddlebags on the cot, and began feverishly to paw through their contents.

The contents of the off-side saddlebag were in their familiar disorder.

There was nothing in or about the off-side saddlebag to arouse suspicion.

He unbuckled the flap of the near-side saddlebag, and flipped it back.

Somebody had been at this saddlebag.

His extra shirt, instead of being wadded into the fore-end of the saddlebag on top of a pair of socks, had been stuffed into the hinder end on top of a pair of underdrawers.

But there was something else at the bottom of the saddlebag.

Once in his room Racey again explored his own and Swing's saddlebags and cantenas, looked under the cots and through the bedclothes.

Within two minutes after the explosion ten small sacks were deposited in the saddlebags on the horses which stood before the station-house.

It was to the owner of these eyes that the man gave the scraps from his lunch remaining in the saddlebag.

Be sure she did not forget those saddlebags that held the detestable bottles out of which he used to shake those loathsome powders which, to virgin childish palates that find heaven in strawberries and peaches, areWell, I suppose I had better stop.

SEE English, Horace B. RAINE, CLARA R. Saddlebag folk.

Saddlebag folk; the way of life in the Kentucky mountains.

SEE English, Horace B. RAINE, CLARA R. Saddlebag folk.

Saddlebag folk; the way of life in the Kentucky mountains.

The Outfit minus the Horse and Saddlebags..Receives Instruction.

The Outfit minus the Horse and Saddlebags.Receives Instruction.

The horse and saddlebags, the inevitable Alpha, if not the Omega, of an Itinerant's outfit, were wanting, as such conveniences had hardly, as yet, found their way to the northern portions of the Territory.

Obtaining a horse and saddle, and substituting a pocket compass for the saddlebags, as that evidence of civilization had not yet reached the village, I started out on my trip.

[Illustration: LINCOLN'S SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS AND SADDLEBAG.]