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Weichel, in the ambulance she having been kindly attended to by the surgeons, and gathering up the prisoners the squaws and papooses and captured stock, we started at once for the South Platte River, eight miles distant, and there went into camp. Next morning General Carr issued an order that all the money found in the village should be turned over to the adjutant.
This polite speech discovered a streak in Indian nature that, properly cultivated, would fit the red man to shine as a courtier or politician. Red Shirt walked away with the insouciance of a king dismissing an audience, and some of the squaws came to display papooses to the Great White Lady. These children of nature were not the least awed by the honor done them.
"I wish I was going!" exclaimed Danny Rugg. "So do I," said Charley Mason. "I'll see some Indians, too," Bert went on. "And will you see those darling little papooses they carry on their backs?" asked Nellie Parks. "I guess I'll see them," Nan said. "I don't like Indian men and women, but the babies must be cute." "Wouldn't it be great if you could get an Indian doll?" asked Grace.
Amine observed it, and smiled with scorn; and as she did so, almost unwittingly, she perceived that the eye of Father Mathias was earnestly fixed upon her. "The Papooses I have just left do no worse than worship their idols, and are termed idolaters," muttered Amine. "What, then, are these Christians?" "Would you not be better below?" said Father Mathias, coming over to Amine.
If you'll just tell the truth nobody's going to know through me anything about your former wives, nor how many half-breed papooses claim you. And I know Baronet here well enough to know he never gossips." Le Claire turned his dark face toward Mapleson, and his piercing black eyes seemed to look through the restless lawyer fidgeting in his chair.
A boy of the tribe, who had been digging for clams on the beach, came running home with startling tidings. "The white men the winged canoes as big as our lodges " he gasped. "Come quickly and see!" Old men and young, squaws and papooses, every one deserted the little settlement by the river and went in wild haste up the eastward hills to look upon this strange wonder.
Six moons have come and gone, and there has been no rain; the wind blows hot from the south all day and all night; the ground is hot and cracked; the grass is burned up; the buffalo wallows are dry; the streams are dry; the game is scarce; Black Kettle is poor, and his band is hungry. He asks the white soldiers for food for his braves and their squaws and papooses.
The shooting galleries were crowded. Along the lake shore a yelling audience watched birch canoe races. The merry-go-round held as many squaws and papooses and stolid bucks as it did whites. The four returned to the automobile for lunch hot and muddy but well saturated with the subtle sense of expectation and excitement that was in the air.
For instance: when they, or any of the little papooses, were naughty or disobedient, they were put under what might be called the water-cure treatment. Instead of being whipped or locked up in a dark pantry as was, I am sorry to say, the custom among some white people they were simply "ducked" under water until they became manageable. Winter or summer, it was all the same.
There were no children there, and it was night-time; but he addressed all who might be dreaming of the Neverland, and who were therefore nearer to him than you think: boys and girls in their nighties, and naked papooses in their baskets hung from trees. 'Do you believe? he cried. Tink sat up in bed almost briskly to listen to her fate.
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