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Updated: June 15, 2025
They themselves could hardly have taken the Lady Warriston red-hand, because in the meantime the actual perpetrator of the murder, a horse-boy named Robert Weir, in the employ of Jean's father, had made good his escape.
Through the glass I see all this, with a clearness that leaves no doubt as to the character of these varied chevelures. They are the scalps of whites both of men and women! And the red-hand upon the shield? A red-hand? Ah! I remember.
This man brought the intelligence that the scattered enemy had again collected that, while fleeing from the rout, they had met with a large war-party of their own tribe accompanied by another of their allies, the Cheyennes; that both together formed a band of several hundred warriors; and that they were now marching back towards the valley of the Huerfano to take revenge for the death of Red-Hand, and the defeat which his party had sustained!
The Red-Hand, after firing, had resigned his place; but this was instantly occupied by one of his sub-chiefs, who, armed with another musket, in turn stepped up to the line. Again I saw the gleaming barrel brought to the level, with its dark tube pointed upon my body. This marksman was more expeditious; but for all that, it was to me a time of racking torture.
"Fer all she's a kind of prisoner right here, caught red-hand doin' the damnedest she knows to break us in favour of the outfit that pays her?" Bat smiled as he flung his challenge. But his tone, his words, were no indication of his mood, or of the rapid thought passing behind his shrewd eyes. A great sense of pleasure was asurge within him. He wanted to tell of it.
Many of them speak Spanish, or its North Mexican patois. They have opportunities of learning it from the New Mexican traders, but better from their captives. "Si cavallero! I speak Spanish. What wishes the warrior with the red-hand upon his shield?" "The pale-face is a stranger in this country, else he would not ask such a question? What wishes the Red-Hand? Ha, ha, ha!
But it was a' sowdered up again some gait, and the bairn was sent awa, and bred up near the Highlands, and grew up to be a fine wanle fallow, like mony ane that comes o' the wrang side o' the blanket; and Sir Richard wi' the Red-hand, he had a fair offspring o'his ain, and a was lound and quiet till his head was laid in the ground.
Had I not been guided in my conjectures by a certain foreknowledge by the allusions that had occurred in the speeches of Red-Hand I should never have dreamt of identifying that form. Forewarned by these, the apparition was not unexpected. The woman was Su-wa-nee! She was standing erect by the prostrate form of the young hunter her head slightly bent, and her face turned towards him.
The question was put in a hurried manner, and in a tone that betrayed excitement. "On the Huerfano," I replied "by the Orphan butte. It was the band of a chief known as the Red-Hand." "Ha! The Red-Hand on the Huerfano! Stranger! are you sure of this?" The earnest voice in which the interrogatory was again put somewhat surprised me.
If such a party was ahead of us and it was still a question we knew that they could not possibly be aware of the defeat sustained by their comrades under Red-Hand; and, having no knowledge of their own predicament, would fight without that dread, which such a circumstance might otherwise have inspired.
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