The Long Chance to Succeed

The Pony Express rider was riding fast for his life. Behind were Indians chasing the rider for passing through their lands. The rider kept going as fast as the horse could endure. It was sweating heavily by now. “Can they make the next Post”, thought the express rider worried that just a small burrow could upend and kill them.

Then a row of arrows came flying over the Pony Express rider and dug in ahead of them. Another row whistled past and then a searing pain in shoulder of the rider told him he had been hit by an arrow.