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She no longer cried for a pull at her father's pipe. "Have you heard that Kateegoose is dead?" asked Slowfoot. "No how did he die?" "He was met on the plains by enemies, killed, and scalped." "That is sad very sad," said La Certe. "The world is well rid of him," observed Slowfoot; "he was a bad man."
The Governor also was greatly annoyed, and in the afternoon of the following day made the visitors a number of presents, besides providing for them a feast; but all his good intentions were spoiled by Kateegoose, who had the audacity to come forward and deliberately shoot his foe while the Sioux were at meat.
While old McKay was conducting the Sioux slowly through the garden, Kateegoose glided swiftly through the thicket to the spot where the summer-house stood, and took up a position behind it, so that the party in making the round of the garden would necessarily pass close to him. From the window of Dan's room, Little Bill observed part of these mysterious movements and suspected mischief.
In savage life this dogging process would not have been possible, but in a comparatively crowded settlement, and in the midst of all the surprising novelties that surrounded the Palefaces, it was all too easy; for Kateegoose took care to keep as much as possible in the background, and well under cover of houses, cottages, carts, stacks, and wigwams; besides which he had painted his face in such a manner, and so modified his costume, that his own acquaintances among the settlers he had no friends failed to recognise him.
Sometimes, when on the war-path, a clever bad man can reason with them till he blinds them, and they are ready to do wrong. It may be so now. Okematan is clever. Kateegoose does not know what to advise." "Kateegoose was not asked to advise," returned Dechamp sternly. "He may return to his tent."
He missed the man, though he hit and killed the horse. But I shall find the rascal out before long he may depend on that!" So saying, the commandant left the spot. "Do you know anything about this?" asked La Certe, turning full on the Indian. "Kateegoose is not a medicine-man. He cannot be in two places at once. He knows nothing." For a sly man La Certe was wonderfully credulous.
The enemy of Kateegoose was one of the younger Sioux chiefs. He led the party which visited Prairie Cottage. The garden of the Cottage, at its lower end towards the river, approached close to the confines of a thick coppice. It formed the extremity of a belt of woodland which at that time bordered the river.
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