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Ray, after a few words to Sergeant Winsor, crawled over beside his silent and absorbed young second in command, and, bringing his glasses to bear, gazed across a low parapet of sand long and fixedly at the turbulent throng a thousand yards away. "It's easy to make out Stabber," he presently spoke. "One can almost hear that foghorn voice of his.
Then a miserable stabber of the class familiar to every South Italian or South American town was hired at a good price to do a vulgar job which, if it only succeeded, would satisfy easily and cheaply the business of those who hired the murderer. The scheme failed, and something more subtle had to be sought.
Lame Wolf, a younger chief than Stabber, had yet more power among the Ogalallas, being Red Cloud's favorite nephew, and among the Indians at least, his acknowledged representative. Whenever called to account, however, for that nephew's deeds, the wary old statesman promptly disavowed them.
It was at this stage of the game he had his final split with Stabber. Stabber was shrewd, and saw unerringly that with other columns out from Custer on the Little Horn and Washakie on the Wind River, with reinforcements coming from north and south, the surrounding of the Sioux in arms would be but a matter of time.
"It is the common usage of women to ask of men this little labour, which is a harder task than ever Hercules, that mighty-muscled king of heathenry, achieved. Nay, I, for all my sinews, am an attested weakling. The craft of other men I do not fear, for I have encountered no formidable enemy save myself; but that same midnight stabber unhorsed me long ago.
But the retainers shrank from the undertaking, therefore Edmund sprang from the throne like a tiger and buried his talons in the robber's tresses. There was a mixture of feet, legs, teeth, and features for a moment, and when peace was restored King Edmund had a watch-pocket full of blood, and the robber chieftain was wiping his stabber on one of the royal tidies.
'Here's this morning's New York Sewer! cried one. 'Here's this morning's New York Stabber! Here's the New York Family Spy! Here's the New York Private Listener! Here's the New York Peeper! Here's the New York Plunderer! Here's the New York Keyhole Reporter! Here's the New York Rowdy Journal! Here's all the New York papers!
Northward the ridge line and the long, gradual slope seemed alive with swarms of Indian warriors, many of them darting about in wild commotion. About the little eminence where Stabber and the Fox had again locked horns in violent altercation, as many as a hundred braves had gathered.
The guests arrived and sat wedged together, shoulder to shoulder, within the hot and suffocating lodge. The Stabber, for that was our entertainer's name, had killed an old buffalo bull on his way. This veteran's boiled tripe, tougher than leather, formed the main item of the repast. For the rest, it consisted of wild cherries and grease boiled together in a large copper kettle.
"Ay," answered the old woman, in the same style of bitter irony, "I know the wages of that service; a curse when the corslet is not sufficiently brightened, a blow when the girth is not tightly drawn, to be beaten because the hounds are at fault, to be reviled because the foray is unsuccessful, to stain his hands for the master's bidding in the blood alike of beast and of man, to be a butcher of harmless deer, a murderer and defacer of God's own image, not at his own pleasure, but at that of his lord, to live a brawling ruffian, and a common stabber exposed to heat, to cold, to want of food, to all the privations of an anchoret, not for the love of God, but for the service of Satan, to die by the gibbet, or in some obscure skirmish, to sleep out his brief life in carnal security, and to awake in the eternal fire, which is never quenched."
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