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Updated: May 24, 2025
It was this flight that was on the mind of Deerfoot and Mul-tal-la, for each felt that momentous consequences were to flow therefrom. The four friends were once more gathered in the home of the guests of the Blackfoot tribe.
Why should he want to try it again?" "Because he has hope of winning the fight." "He can't have any such hope. Why, Deerfoot whipped him without a weapon in his hand, while Taggarak had his big, ugly knife most of the time." Mul-tal-la had not heard anything of this, and he looked inquiringly at Deerfoot and then at the boy who had made the amazing statement.
The Shelton brothers acted the part of listeners, sensibly feeling that they could contribute nothing to the discussion between Mul-tal-la and Deerfoot; but no speakers could have asked for more deeply interested auditors than they. "Taggarak has not come back," said the Blackfoot. "Mul-tal-la stopped at his lodge, and his squaw said she had seen naught of him since this morning."
Those who saw him as he moved here and there with the boys, or Mul-tal-la, or Spink and Jiggers, had to admit the truth of the assertion heard many times; he was the most prepossessing young warrior upon whom any of them had ever looked. Neither among the Blackfeet nor any of their neighboring tribes had so comely a youth been seen.
Mul-tal-la could not hide a certain nervousness, but with all the calmness he could summon he parried the direct question by the remark: "The most terrible warrior of all the Blackfeet is Taggarak the chieftain; he has slain many men in battle and has never been conquered." The inference from this remark was obvious even to the boys.
He does not like to mingle with common animals, and is as proud as ever." "We have enough left of our buffalo meat to furnish you a meal, Deerfoot, but you told us you had eaten only a little while ago." "Deerfoot thanks his brothers, and will not eat until to-morrow." "I suppose Mul-tal-la told you all about us?" "He has left little for you to tell.
As the interpreter waited for him to finish, Victor added: "Tell him exactly what I said." "And that the answer is from both of us," added George. Mul-tal-la obeyed, but carefully refrained from saying that he, too, had accepted the new religion, and that the warriors who acted as messengers were pondering over it, and had spoken to some of their comrades on the momentous theme.
The dusky youth made his way directly to the point where he had been informed Amokeat and his party had left on their northward excursion, and, without looking behind him, found the trail and began his long journey. Mul-tal-la waited for some minutes after his departure and then gave the word for the brothers to make ready.
"Wahla had to keep his captives for a week or more until word could be sent to the other villages, that they might come and feast upon the deaths of the Cheyennes. During that time, Mul-tal-la cannot tell how, the young Cheyenne warrior and Mita, daughter of the chieftain, met and learned to love each other.
Deerfoot for the first time noted what was said. He lifted his head from his elbow and sat upright. "Taggarak was there; Deerfoot saw him," he quietly remarked. "Yes; Mul-tal-la passed near him. The chief kept by himself and spoke to no one. He was on the side nearest the wood. Just before the last race was won he turned away and went back to his lodge."
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