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He took them to the tepee, and Injun Jim ate the complete contents of both cans and seemed disgruntled afterwards; so much so that he would not talk at all but smoked in brooding silence, staring with his one malevolent eye at the stained wall of the tepee. An hour later he began to move himself restlessly in the blanket and to mutter Piute words, the full meaning of which Casey did not grasp.
A short, squat Indian, good-humored of face, shook his black head till the silver rings danced in his ears, and replied: "Bad damn coyotee!" "Piute shake with Jack. Him shoot coyote got big gun," said Naab. "How-do-Jack?" replied Piute, extending his hand, and then straightway began examining the new rifle. "Damn heap big gun!"
"Mescal's pushing him hard to make the sand-strip," said George. "Piute three fires to-night Lookout Point!" This order meant the execution of August Naab's hurry-signal for the Navajos, and after he had given it, he waved the Indian toward the cliff, and lapsed into a silence which no one dared to break. Naab consigned the bodies of the rustlers to the famous cemetery under the red wall.
"He rode off somewhere yesterday. Perhaps to the Piute camp. These Indians are slow. They may take a week to pack that load over here. But if Nas Ta Bega or some one doesn't come with a message to-day I'll ride over there myself." "Joe, what do you think about this missionary?" queried Shefford, bluntly. "Reckon there's not much to think, unless you see him or find out something.
Considerably to the man's amazement the youngster nodded a timid affirmative. "By honky, Tintoretto, I'll bet he savvies English as well as you," said Jim. "All right, Borealis or bust! I reckon a man who travels twenty miles to git him a pup, and comes back home with you and this here young Piute, is as good as elected to office. Injun, what's your name?"
"I'll wait," said Bostwick, "till we can drink a toast to the 'Laughing Water' claim." McCoppet opened the door, waved Bostwick into the crowded gaming room, and was about to follow when his roving gaze abruptly lighted on a figure in the place a swarthy, half-breed Piute Indian, standing in front of the wheel and roulette layout.
She screamed at him in English, in Piute, and chose words in each that no princess should employ to express her emotions. Her loud denunciations followed Casey to the tepee, where he stopped and offered his services to Hahnaga as undertaker. She accepted stolidly and together they buried Injun Jim, using his best blanket and not much ceremony.
These latter were a Chinese cook named Algy, a Piute Indian half-breed called Cayuse, and two rare souls Napoleon G. Blink and "Gettysburg" miners, and boastful old worthies, long partnered and beloved by Van. Just at present the tunnel was empty, the glory-hole was deserted, and the quartz-mill was silent. The mine had proved a failure.
He did not seek the Indian murderer, nor for traces of his place of concealment. He went due west, to the nearest Indian camp, on the now diminished reservation. He called upon a wise and grave Piute, as old as some of the hills. "Captain Sides," he said, when the due formalities of greeting had been gratified, "I want you to get Cayuse.
A night ride over the Alkali Plains of Nevada, famous for their sage brush, was a novelty, and in the clear atmosphere they looked like fields of snow. At Wadsworth, where our train began to ascend the lower slopes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, were several Piute Indians. They sell beads, blankets, baskets, and other mementoes.
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