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Nearly all the scalp-hunters, sixty or seventy, are on the ground. Seguin only, with the doctor and a few men, is engaged some distance off, pitching a tent. Garey stands upon one side, slightly elated with his triumph, but not without feelings of apprehension that he may yet be beaten. Old Rube has gone back to the fire, and is roasting another rib.
The vidette party, of whom I was one, moved westward across the prairie. Rube, Garey, El Sol, and his sister, with Sanchez, a ci-devant bull-fighter, and half a dozen others, composed the party. Seguin himself was our head and guide.
"No!" said I, as the girl proceeded to unfasten a beautiful scarf which she wore around her waist; "you shall not: I will find something else." "Here, mister; if this will do," interposed the young trapper Garey, "you are heartily welcome to it." As Garey said this, he pulled a coloured handkerchief out of the breast of his hunting-shirt, and held it forth. "You are very kind; thank you!"
With heavy hearts they proceeded up the river thirty-five miles to Fort Douglas, near the site of the present Fort Garey, then the principal trading post of the Hudson Bay Company.
"But how, captain, if he squints yonder-away?" Garey, as he said this, pointed to the rocks at the foot of the mountain. "Sac-r-r-re! the Digger!" exclaimed Seguin, his countenance changing expression. The body lay on a conspicuous point, on its face, the crimson skull turned upward and outward, so that it could hardly fail to attract the eye of anyone coming in from the plain.
When we turned to go back we saw that the Indian had walked away, and now stood chatting easily and familiarly with Seguin. As we re-entered the camp-ground I observed Garey stoop and pick up a shining object. It was the gage d'amour, which he carefully readjusted around his neck in its wonted position.
The fierce but sagacious brutes would have discovered, us one by one, and destroyed, us in detail. `They must, be met and fought! that was the word; and we resolved to carry it into execution. "There were about a dozen of us who `stood up to it' all the Delaware and Shawanoes, with Garey and the mountain-men.
The other three reared themselves up on their hams, and commenced manoeuvring with their forearms, in a human-like and comical pantomime! "We were in no condition to relish this amusement. Every man hastened to arm himself, those who had emptied their rifles hurriedly re-loading them. "`For your life don't! cried Garey, catching at the gun of one of the hunters.
I was puzzled beyond expression, when a man Garey who had been felled upon the platform by a blow from one of the bears, suddenly sprang to his feet, exclaiming, "`Go it, Doc! Three chyars for the doctor!
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