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"His lordship an' me we've got a private pow-wow on hand, an' we don't want no listeners mussin' around." The men emptied their glasses, stood up, hitched their belts, and went slowly past him and out at the door. Kiddie knew them by sight. They had all been of Nick's gang in the defence of the mule wagons.
And it was a very wicked wizard, a boo-oin, or pow-wow; and he, being subtle and crafty, and knowing of her family, so imitated the voices of her brothers and sisters; beseeching her to let them in, that her very heart ached. "O sister, we have come from afar!" they cried. "We missed you, and have followed you. Let us in!"
"Can't be that they've given it up, do you think?" asked Tom, after five minutes had passed. "Nothing like that," replied Frank. "They're holding a big pow-wow about something." As he spoke, a figure detached itself from the crowd and came towards them, waving a white handkerchief attached to a stick. "The white flag!" exclaimed Frank. "They're going to invite us to surrender."
Armour was sitting in the trader's room at Fort Charles when the carrier came with the mails. He had had some successful days hunting buffalo with Eye-of-the-Moon and a little band of metis, had had a long pow-wow in Eye-of-the-Moon's lodge, had chatted gaily with Lali the daughter, and was now prepared to enjoy heartily the arrears of correspondence and news before him.
"I took you at first for your father's sake, and I kept you for your own. It's a long time since I have met a girl like you; I didn't suppose there was one left in the whole town. You are one of us the old settlers, the aborigines. Do you know what I'm going to do some time? I'm going to have a regular aboriginal pow-wow, and all the old-timers shall be invited.
'Bring up thy tribe, that we may hold pow-wow in state before them, as becomes great chiefs. 'We'll bring them up right enough, said Anthea, 'with their bows and arrows, and tomahawks, and scalping-knives, and everything you can think of, if you don't look sharp and go.
"They're holding a pow-wow somewhere. Look out for squalls. Better keep the doors locked these nights, and fasten the windows so no one can get in." "I'll lock the stable." The only menace Tressa could realise was the stealing of the horses. Conrad crept over the grade; but he did not drop down the path to his shack. Instead he entered the bush.
It was a wild night! John noticed, very late, that the Indians seemed to be having a special pow-wow of their own on the river bank near the bridge. There was a great fire, and mad dancing and war whooping. He started toward them. "Don't go there, pardner," called an old trapper. "Them bucks is crazy with drink, an' if I knows anything about Injuns, it won't be no safe place for a white man."
" he began angrily, but stopped suddenly as, with a fearless laugh, the man beside him pushed the half-drawn weapon back into its place. "Nay then, not so fast, my lord," he chuckled gaily. "Hearkee, my master. I did but use my eyes during their everlasting pow-wow. Surely ye would not grudge me that! And the maid is comely, well worth a trinket from thy store.
They might have growed there for all I can see," growled Mr. Connors. "I reckon we better hold a pow-wow with th' foreman of this shack an' find out what he knows," suggested Mr. Cassidy. "This looks too good to be a swap." Mr. Connors looked his disgust at the idea and then a light broke in upon him. "Mebby they was hard pushed an' wanted fresh cayuses," he said.