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It is so far off their line to the reservations where they have to run for safety after their depredations . '' `` I know that ; but now that all but two troops of cavalry have gone up with General Crook they might be emboldened to try a wider sweep . That 's all I 'm afraid of . '' `` Even if the Indians came , colonel , they 've got those ranch buildings so loop-holed and fortified at Phillips 's that we could stand them off a week if need be , and you would reach there by noon at latest . '' `` Yes . We make an early start to-morrow morning , and ` twill be just another twenty-five miles to our camp on the Chug . If all is well you will be nearly to Eagle 's Nest by the time we get to Phillips 's , and you will be at Laramie before the sunset-gun to-morrow .