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But Wonota could not understand this logic. And yet, Wonota in other ways was not at all reckless or ferocious. She possessed a fund of sympathy, and was kindly disposed toward everybody When one of the cook's helpers cut his foot with an ax, she aided in the rough surgery furnished by the camp boss, and afterwards nursed the invalid while he was confined to his bunk and could not even hop about.
Wonota was as unconscious of what imperiled Ruth as the latter was at first unknowing of the coming catastrophe. It was Jim Hooley whom the incident startled and alarmed more than anybody else. He committed an unpardonable sin unpardonable for a director! He forgot, when everything was ready, to order the starting of the camera.
Having ridden to the proper spot, she wheeled the white pony again and faced the place where there was a steel shield against which the objects she was to shoot at were thrown. Dakota Joe rode forward as though to affix the first clay ball to the string. Then he pulled in his horse, scowled across the ring at Wonota, and beckoned one of the cowboys to approach.
"Take it the other way around, Miss Ruth," returned her friend, with a quizzical smile. "We should be very glad that you did meet Wonota. Considering what that mad bull would have done to you if she had not swerved him by a rifle shot, a little bother like this is a small price to pay." "Oh well!" "In addition," said Mr. Hammond briskly, "look what we may make out of the Indian girl.
"Let's get Willie and the Gem and go somewhere with Wonota. You've all day to hammer at her. Get your continuity and try to get it into Wonota's head that she is deeply and desperately in love with Grand." In spite of Helen's brusk way of speaking, Ruth decided that her idea might be well worth following. Helen took some knitting and a parasol and a hamper.
"And I declare!" cried Helen, as they rolled on through one of the suburbs of the city, "there is one of the sights, sure enough. See that billboard, girls?" "Oh!" cried Wonota, who possessed quite as sharp eyes as anybody in the party. "We can't escape that man," sighed Jennie, as she read in towering letters the announcement of "Dakota Joe's Wild West and Frontier Round-Up."
"I am called Wonota in the Osage tongue," interposed the Indian maiden composedly enough. "She's Dakota Joe's Injun sharpshooter," put in the man at the fence. "And she ain't no business out here in her play-actin' costume or with her gun loaded that-a-way. Aginst the law. That gun she uses is for shootin' glass balls and clay pigeons in the show."
He paid no attention to Ruth, even, although she stepped forward and asked what his errand was. "I must go, Miss Ruth," said Wonota quickly. "Mr. Hammond has sent him. It was arranged before." "What was arranged?" demanded Ruth, with some sharpness. "We are going yonder," she pointed to the hazy shore of Grenadier Island that was in view from where they stood. "It is said by Mr.
There was plainly a serious schism between Dakota Joe and the girl whom he had called the Indian princess. The girls settled back in their seats after Wonota had replied to the applause with a stiff little bow from the entrance to the dressing-tent.
"I understand there's an Injun girl stopping here? Is that so?" Uncle Jabez glanced at Ruth and got her permission to speak before he answered: "I don't know as it's any of your business, Mister; but the Princess Wonota, of the Osage Nation, is stopping here just now. What might be your business with her?"
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