In an instant they were on their ponies and after me.
I urged my mount to full speed up the creek bottom, taking chances of his falling into a hole.

The Indians followed me as fast as they could, but I soon outdistanced them.
I struck the old Santa Fe trail ten miles from Fort Hays just at daybreak.

Shortly after reveille I rode into the post, where Colonel Moore, to whom I reported, asked for the dispatches from Captain Parker for General Sheridan.

He asked me to give them into his hands, but I said I preferred to hand them to the general in person.

Sheridan, who was sleeping in the same building, heard our voices and bade me come into his room.
"Hello, Cody!" he said.