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"Hoity-toity!" exclaimed Mrs. Paisley. "What man deserves such a title as that, Miss Fielding?" "That Bilby!" exclaimed Ruth. "I just felt it in my bones like Aunt Alvirah that that creature would annoy us again." "Then you are not disappointed," said Helen drily. "Is that the fellow that big gawk in the blue suit?" "No, no! I don't know him," said Ruth.
"I want the girl more than I do the crazy old Indian." "You'll think he's crazy if he ever sets eyes on you again, Mr. Bilby," was Mr. Hammond's warning. "He hasn't forgotten you." Bilby drew back and he looked frightened, too. "I I don't want him right now," he muttered. Hammond accepted the summons of the local court, glanced at it, and put it in his pocket.
Ruth and Wonota would not hear to this. "I guess we have eluded Bilby," said the girl of the Red Mill; "but I shall not feel that Wonota is safe, Totantora, unless you are near her at all times. You must keep watch of your daughter. She is a valuable possession." For once Totantora smiled although it was grimly. "A squaw did not use to be counted for much in my nation," he said.
What do you want and that fellow behind you?" Horatio Bilby grinned rather sheepishly. "Well, you know, Mr. Hammond, all's fair in love and war." "This is certainly not love," said the moving picture man. "Now, what do you both want?" "You are ordered to bring two people into court," said the deputy sheriff, "and show cause why they shouldn't be handed over to Mr.
"It is rather a complicated matter," went on Ruth, "and it is giving Mr. Hammond and his lawyers some trouble. There is a man named Bilby, who has been a picture producer in a small way, who seems to have some influence with the head of the Government Bureau of Indian Affairs.
"What girl's father?" demanded the visitor, and now he seemed surprised. "Wonota's. Chief Totantora is the name he goes by. It strikes me that he ought to have a deal more to say about the girl than any Government department." "Why, he's nothing but a blanket Injun!" ejaculated Bilby, with disgust. "Mebbe so," rejoined Uncle Jabez. He still remains the girl's father."
Bilby himself faintly groaned. "Put your hands up all of you!" commanded Copley, and one of the most amazing things about the whole wild extravaganza was that the young fellow's voice was perfectly unshaken. Lads that have been in the army are apt to consider circumstances like these as meat and drink to them. Chessleigh had not served Uncle Sam in vain. He was as cool as the proverbial cucumber!
"The white man's law is very strange," muttered Totantora. "But we will get ahead of Bilby before he can do anything else," Ruth went on. "Miss Cameron's car is outside in the road. Go to the hotel and change your clothes, Totantora, and I will take both you and Wonota back to the Red Mill. Until we get away for the North I shall not want you out of my sight."
Nobody saw Bilby immediately, however; and as several days passed Ruth began to wonder if, after all, she had not been mistaken in her identification of the fat man in the boat. Meanwhile, the making of the picture went on steadily; but something else and something Helen Cameron at least considered of moment was planned during this time.
She realized that he, of course, really had no influence with the opium smugglers. But she began to understand that there were other men coming here who might be more savage than the Chinamen. She remembered that there had been several white men in the launch when she had observed it, and that on one occasion Horatio Bilby had been one of them.
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