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Always jawin’ about education an’ bein’ a gentleman! Do this, don’t do that—this’s right, that’s wrong. Bein’ soft with Injuns—Lord, I was sick of bein’ his kind of son when I went off with Howard. Rennie wasn’t even ready to fight th’ war proper—big man here, ’fraid to try it where he wasn’t! Rightly he was sick of me, too, only his precious duty wouldn’t let him say so.
I told him I reckoned he would get his har raised if the Injuns came that way; but, in course, that's his business." "What do you advise, Pearson? I do not like abandoning this farm to the mercy of the redskins." "It would be a pity, Master Welch, that's as true as Gospel.
Turning to Baby Kirst, who was staring intently down on the dead man, he suddenly cried: "Sweet sugar, Baby, if you ride and find two Injuns just gone away." And he pointed in the direction taken by the man and woman. With a yelp of juvenile delight Baby slapped his horse and rode away down the valley. "Now you've done it!" growled Davis, scowling blackly at Crabtree.
Seth seated himself on a fallen tree-trunk, and now looked squarely into the wood-cutter's thin, mean face. "Y' see it's kind o' curious. I got that gal from the Injuns more'n six years back, as you'll likely remember. Her folks, her father an' her ma, was killed south o' the Reservations. Guess they were kind o' big folk in your country.
"Or do you think we better tie the old son-of-a-gun up and be sure of him?" "Aw," said Happy Jack disgustedly a few minutes later, when the Happy Family had crawled out of their ambush and were feeling particularly foolish. "Nex' time old granny Furrman says Injuns t' this bunch, somebody oughta gag him." "I notice you waited till he'd gone outa hearing before you said that," Luck told him drily.
An' it ain't confined to Injuns; I tell you there ain't anything that anybody goes on so much. Some men pretends to think one thing the best of all, an' some another, but come right down to it, what every man, woman an' child in the country loves an' worships is pluck, clear grit, well backed up."
"I'm going to leave you here and go to look over the other hunting districts by myself." Still no reply. "Well?" demanded Sam. "What about me?" asked Dick. "The girl will take care of you." A long silence ensued. "She'll take everything we've got and get out," said Dick at last. "She will not! She'd have done it before now." "She'll quit me the first Injuns that come along."
The people of the train fell into the habit of calling me Captain, and every time I would ride along where this Joe or Bab were, they would invariably salute me by lifting their hats or by taking them off entirely and then they would say: "Marse Capting, de ye see any Injuns?"
The Injuns were after him in a moment, and before we could get near them a yell of triumph told us that it was too late, so we turned and bolted in different directions. "I soon left them behind me, but I hung about the place for a day or two to see if Macdonell should turn up, or any of his men. I even went back to the Fort after the reptiles had left it.
The next morning was a long one. The baggage car secured by Colonel Howell for the aeroplane crates was soon loaded. Then nothing remained to be done except, as Colonel Howell put it, "to line up my Injuns." Moosetooth and La Biche were yet in camp at the Stampede Grounds. The boys, including Count Zept, accompanied Colonel Howell to the Grounds about noon.
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