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Updated: June 21, 2025
"You talk as if there were something in this country like the old 'secret mail' of East India, where I once lived." "I don't know what you mean by that," said Auberry, "but I do know that the Injuns in this country have ways of talkin' at long range. Why, onct a bunch of us had five men killed up on the Powder River by the Crows. That was ten o'clock in the morning.
We had waited perhaps not over an hour at our fireside, undecided what to do, when Auberry raised a hand. "Listen," he said. "There's a boat coming"; and presently we all heard the splash of oars. Our fire had been seen by one of the boats of the River Belle, out picking up such stragglers as could be found. "Hello, there!" called a rough voice to us, as the boat grated at our beach.
We dismounted, laid down our weapons on the ground, and approached each other. "Watch them close, boys," whispered Auberry. "They've got plenty of irons around them somewhere, and plenty of scalps, too, maybe." "Talk to them, Auberry," said Belknap; and as the former was the only one of us who understood the Sioux tongue, he acted as interpreter.
"What are the Sioux doing so far east?" he asked of their spokesman, sternly. "Hunting," answered the Sioux, as Auberry informed us. "The white soldiers drive away our buffalo. The white men kill too many. Let them go. This is our country." It seemed to me I could see the black eyes of the Sioux boring straight through every one of us, glittering, not in the least afraid.
She's looking for privates Auberry and McGovern, G Company, First Virginia Volunteers. Keep her in my office while they're sent for. Bring me my bag from the table." It was really a pretty fight, that between Mandy and the corporal. The latter was obliged to call out the guard for aid.
"You might do a heap worse than that gal," said Auberry. "I suppose you're married yourself," I suggested. "Some," said Auberry, chuckling in the dark. "In fact, a good deal, I reckon. My present woman's a Shoshone we're livin' up Horse Creek, below Laramie. Them Shoshones make about the best dressers of 'em all." "I don't quite understand " "I meant hides.
"No, both he and Auberry seem to be just beginning." "Humph! Reackon they're happy, then. If a man's gettin' three squares a day and plenty o' fightin', don't see whut more he kin ask." "Corporal," I called to my sentry, who was now pacing back and forth before the door, hiding his mouth behind his hand, "put this woman under arrest, and hold her until I return.
"If we can't get across to the boat, it's only four or five miles up to the settlements on this side, opposite the old Independence landing." "I couldn't walk," said the girl. She shyly looked down at the edge of her thin wrapper, and I saw the outline of an uncovered toe. "Here, ma'am," said Auberry, unknotting from his neck a heavy bandana. "This is the best I can do.
We shall meet our soldiers and come and wipe the Sioux off the land if they come into the valley where our great road runs west." "That is good," said the Sioux. "As for us, we harm no white man. We hunt where we please. White men go!" Auberry now turned to us.
We done took at least six bits off'n every other man, woman or child that come through there, east or west, all summer long. You see I was tired of that lazy husband o' mine back home, and Auberry he couldn't see nothin' to that woman o' his'n atter he found out how I could bake pie and bread. So we both seem' the chanct there was there on the trail, we done set up in business.
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