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So Col., you will readily understand what a difficult matter it is to put an estimate on what his services calls for in money." Col. Chivington sat in thought a few minutes and then said to me, "Mr. Drannan, will two hundred and fifty dollars be a sufficient amount to offer you?" "That will be owing to circumstances, Col.
That afternoon when I was announced at the Colonel's tent, I was met in a somewhat different manner by him to what I had been that noon, for he raised the front of the tent and said: "Come right in Drannan, why do you hesitate?"
Drannan, how is it that you can go into those Indian villages be they large or small? It seems to make no difference to you, and the Indians do not molest you. Have you no hesitation at all in going among the Indians?"
"Mr. Drannan, do you tell me that you captured those horses from an Indian?" I said: "Col. Elliott, yes, sir; and here is something more I captured with them." At that I threw down the five scalps at his feet. He looked amazed as he gazed at the scalps, but said nothing for a few moments. About this time the orderly announced Jim Beckwith at the door.
If I drop the train here it will, but if I am required to pilot the train back through the Comanche country, I would not think of accepting so small an amount." He then said, "Mr. Drannan, providing we employ you to take the train back through the Comanche country, will there be need of any other escort but yourself?"
I told him we would know in eighteen or twenty days at the outside. Capt. McKee and I now went to the Col's. quarters, and he paid me the two hundred and fifty dollars I had agreed to take. As we were leaving, the Col. said, "Mr. Drannan, if the Capt. makes the arrangement in regard to the freighting of the Buffalo robes, where can I find you?"
"What shall I call you? I have known you as the 'Boy Scout, also as the 'Chief of Scouts. I have known you when you were giving lessons in hunting, and now you have come in from a hostile Indian country with a white girl riding behind you. What shall I call you?" I said: "Lieutenant, call me Will Drannan, the trapper, for I am now engaged in that business."
The Capt. clapped his hands and said, "Mr. Drannan, you are safe," and then told the men what the real expense would be to me. The Missouri men answered, "Don't make any difference to us what he is to pay. The bargain he made to save our lives is what we want to pay for as far as we can."
I know how much it takes to fill up hungry men, and you two are not the only hungry men around this camp, and you may be sure we appreciate the feast you planned to surprise us with"; and she turned to me with a smile. "You see, Mr. Drannan, the boys told me all about your suggesting the Buffalo hunt." I answered that the meal she had set before us would pay for more than I had done.
"But if my shooting interferes with your dancing, I will be careful and not do any thing to spoil the music." She laughed and said, "Never you mind, Mr. Drannan, we are going to give you a dance before many nights." I answered that I only knew how to dance one kind of a dance, and that was the scalp dance. She said she had never seen a scalp dance, and said, "What is it like?"
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