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He had swiftly ridden to the camp of the recreant Stabber and purposely demanded speech with that influential chieftain.
Stabber would never have counselled or permitted attack on seasoned troopers, fighting behind even improvised shelter.
They were safe whenever he chose to return to them, and Lame Wolf knew this of Stabber that he had long been a hanger-on about the military reservations, that he had made a study of the methods of the white chiefs, that he was able to almost accurately predict what their course would be in such event as this, and that Stabber had recently received accessions whose boast it was that they had information at first hand of the white chief's plans and intentions.
Grummidge possessed a fair-sized clasp-knife. Armed with this, he rushed boldly in and made a powerful stab at the creature's heart. Alas! for the poor man, even though his stabbing powers had been good instead of bad, for he would only have imbedded the short weapon in a mass of fat without touching the heart. But Grummidge was a bad stabber.
That evening he called to his wife and said, 'What have you got for supper? 'Macaroni, answered she. 'Why have you not boiled a fish? he cried, and stabber in the neck so that she fell dead. The captain, who was not in the least angry, seized the guitar and began to play; but, let him play as loud as he would, the dead woman never stirred. 'Oh, lying shoemaker! Oh, abominable knave!
"If old Stabber tries any of his tricks with that troop he'll he'll get his belly full!" and Master Sandy plainly intimated both in tone and manner, not to mention the vernacular of the soldier, that Stabber might take liberties with any other troop or company at the post, but would best beware of Daddy's.
Stabber urged it rather than risk further battle and further loss, but Stabber had long been jealous of the younger chief, envied him his much larger following and his record as a fighter, and Stabber, presumably, would be only too glad to see him fallen from his high estate. Lame Wolf, therefore, swore he'd fight to the bitter end.
But he never lifted his head from the table; only listened stupidly. However, when the parties rose and separated, he half raised his head, and eyed with a scowl the retiring figure of the purchaser. "If Margaret was alive," muttered he, "I'd take thee by the throat and throttle thee, thou cowardly stabber. But she is dead; dead; dead.
"Sir, Chief Stabber, with over thirty warriors, left camp about three o'clock, heading for Eagle Butte." "Well done, sergeant! I knew I could count on you," answered Webb, in hearty commendation. "Now, one thing more. Go to 'F' Troop's quarters and see how Kennedy is faring.
Ben Ham's house, and I should have been finished and ready for the crows, if he had not stepped out and told master not to strike again, if he did he would shake his liver out. That saved my life, but I was sorry, though Mr. Ham meant good. The goad with the iron brad was in the wagon, and snatching it out I struck the end against a stone, and the stabber flew into the mill-pond.
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