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Two Potawatomi captured on the fifth of June, said that a message had been sent to their tribe to join in the war against the United States; that the British were at Roche de Bout on the Maumee with about four hundred troops and two pieces of artillery, exclusive of the Detroit militia, and that they "had made a fortification around Colonel McKee's house and store at that place, in which they had deposited all their stores and ammunition, arms, clothing and provisions with which they promised to supply all the hostile Indians in abundance, provided they would join and go with them to war; that about two thousand warriors had been assembled, and that Governor Simcoe had promised that fifteen hundred British troops and militia would join them in the attack on the Americans."
He may be out o' sight an' out of mind, when somethin' tells me 'McKee's around'; then I smell b'ar-grease, and the next thing, Bucky shows up, with his ingrasheatin' grin. It's alluz 'grease before meet, as the Sky Pilot would say." 'Ole Man' Terrill was of the watch-dog breed. Whether warned by the instinct of his kind or wakened by the scent of McKee's bear-grease, he suddenly opened his eyes.
To give it all up and become his younger brother's assistant even if it meant, as it would, better hours and more money would be to submerge his identity. He could not bring himself to it. "I guess I'll stay where I am," he said. "They know me around here, and I know them. By the way, will you leave this envelope at Mrs. McKee's? Maggie Rosenfeld is ironing there to-day. It's for her."
Yo're goin' away with too much of my money." "Well, 'Ole Man, I'm likely to rob yuh of a lot more ef you ain't keerful," answered McKee. "Yuh can't jet yeta while," said Terrill. "Dead broke." "Aw, come off! everybody knows ye're a walkin' bank. Bet yuh got three thousan' in that inside pocket o' your'n this minute." Terrill started at McKee's naming the exact amount he was carrying.
The punchers hushed their discussion of the charge, and listened attentively to what the men most interested had to say. "Well, darn it all," apologized the Sheriff to Jack, "it's all darn fool business, anyway. Buck here he started it." Jack smiled sarcastically, and, glancing at McKee, remarked: "Buck McKee's started a good many things in his day " Buck began to bluster.
First I took Tillie away from her good position, and after that nothing went right. Then there were things coming on" he looked at K. anxiously "that meant more expense. I would be glad if you wouldn't say anything about it at Mrs. McKee's." "I'll not speak of it, of course." It was then, when K. asked for Tillie, that Mr. Schwitter's unhappiness became more apparent.
McKee's boarding-house at the corner. Twenty-one meals for five dollars, and a ticket to punch. Tillie, the dining-room girl, punches for every meal you get. If you miss any meals, your ticket is good until it is punched. But Mrs. McKee doesn't like it if you miss." "Mrs. McKee for me," said Le Moyne.
The sheriff took no stock in Buck McKee's professed reformation, and was greatly worried over the influence he had acquired over Bud Lane, who had before this been Slim's protege. Accordingly, he readily conspired with her to break off the relations between the former outlaw and the young horse-wrangler, but thus far had met with no success.
Replying some days later to Seddon's innuendo, Bissell, competent by his presence on the battle-field to bear witness, retorted that when the 2d Indiana gave way, it was McKee's 2d Kentucky, Hardin's 1st Illinois, and Bissell's 2d Illinois which had retrieved the fortunes of the hour, and that the vaunted Mississippi regiment was not within a mile and a half of the scene of action.
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