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He did not think he had come to Indian country here or he would not have left his ashes. But beyond this he will be sure to hide his trail, and the 'Rappahoes will have to follow slow." "You think they are 'Rappahoes, chief?" "Yes, this 'Rappahoe country.
"Have you heard them, chief?" "Leaping Horse heard a dead stick crack." "That might have been a deer," Ben suggested. The chief shook his head. "'Rappahoe; heard gun strike tree." "Then I reckon they will be up in our watch," Ben said. "Well, we shall be ready for them." "Perhaps come, perhaps not come; perhaps scout up valley first see if some of us there, and look for horses.
They do not know we only four; much troubled in their mind where men come from, who can be. Red-skins not like white men. Have many fancies. Fire come out of bush where 'Rappahoe had been killed; think that bad medicine, keep together and talk. Think if men here, why not go across to rock." "I should not be surprised if you are right, chief.
But four of the 'Rappahoe lodges are without a master, and there are five Navahoe widows." "Then you were not alone?" "Garrison was with me among the 'Rappahoes; and the Shoshone hunter, Wind-that-blows, was with me when the Navahoes came on our trail." "They had better have left you alone, chief. Do you know the Ute country?" "The Leaping Horse has been there. The Utes are dogs."
The silence remained unbroken for the next two hours, and then Leaping Horse crawled back as quietly as he had gone. "What was it, chief?" "It was a 'Rappahoe, who will scout no more," the chief said quietly. "He came up the bushes, but before he could step on to the ledge Leaping Horse fired, and he will take no tales back to his tribe." "They won't try again, chief?"
Perhaps some come up path; but crawl up slow, not know whether look-out there." "Well, I don't envy them if they have got much crawling to do to-night; it is cold enough to freeze one's breath." "'Rappahoe not like cold," the chief said, "but wants scalp bad; that makes his blood warm." "I will let some of it out," Jerry said wrathfully, "if I get a chance to lay a bead on one of them.
"I suppose uncle talks their language?" "No, I don't reckon he knows the 'Rappahoe dialect. But the tribes on the western side of the plains can mostly understand each other's talk; and as I know he can get on well with the Utes, he is sure to be able to understand the 'Rappahoes' talk."
"If we could once strike the Green we should be out of the 'Rappahoe country altogether. I have known two or three men who have been up the Green nearly to its head, and there is good hunting and a good many beaver in the side streams. I should not have thought it would have come anywhere like as near as this, but I don't doubt the chief is right."
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