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The horses merely jumped at the unexpected apparitions, then kept plodding up the hill. Don and Dot clambered up the steps of the carry-all trying to mimic the real scalpers, but Mrs. Starr caught each one by an arm and bade them sit down and not get out again without her permission. Meredith had witnessed the whole performance from the cart and laughed teasingly at the climax of the raid.
He stood in his accustomed place on the north side of the Wheat Pit, upon the topmost stair. The Pit was full. Below him and on either side of him were the brokers, scalpers, and traders Hirsch, Semple, Kelly, Winston, and Rusbridge.
I hit you in the wind and you double up, and the other fellow un-doubles you from behind with a cane so that I can double you up again. Laugh! I nearly died over young Berners. Shinners, scalpers, and tweaks are good too jolly good!... but of course all this comes after lamming and tunding.... Come along with me...."
The first thing Wolfe's regulars did at Louisbourg was to scalp an Indian chief. The American rangers were scalpers when their blood was up and when nobody stopped them. They scalped under Wolfe at Quebec. They scalped whites as well as Indians at Baie St Paul, at St Joachim, and elsewhere. Even Washington was a party to such practices.
Every now and then we saw in the potash-dust moccasin-tracks, with the toes turned in, and presently my field-glass revealed a hideous devil skulking in the mile-off ledges, who was none other than a Goshoot spy. How far off were the scalpers and burners? The first afternoon-stage that day was a long and terrible one.
An hour later Jake called. "Eight months is the closest reservation I can get at normal rates, but I know of some scalpers who charge 50% more." Mel groaned. "Buy it no matter what the cost! I've got to go at once!" He would be broke for the next ten years. It was little different from the other time.
Interpreted by the tumultuous dreams of Kate, was it the cavalry of Spain, at whose head so often she had charged the bloody Indian scalpers? Was it, according to the legend of ancient days, cavalry that had been sown by her brother's blood, cavalry that rose from the ground on an inquest of retribution, and were racing up the Andes to seize her?
"'The Scalpers of the Plains. There's five men murdered in the first act. Oh, it's elegant!" "Why don't you go, then, Dick?" "Cause I'm dead-broke busted. That's why. I aint had much luck this week, and it took all my money to pay for my lodgin's and grub." "Do you want very much to go to the theatre, Dick?" "Of course I do; but it aint no use.
"The trouble was that we were both scalpers, and when we decided to let each other alone in that way, I mean we built up a pleasant professional acquaintance on the ashes of the dead fires." "Can't you make it a little warmer than acquaintance?" I protested. "It was a real fellow feeling whatever you choose to call it," she conceded.
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