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So was it with Tawaina and his two friends." And the speaker indicated with his arm two Indians sitting at the outer edge of the circle.
"Tawaina friend. Ethel, hope." Greatly relieved by knowing that a clew would be now given to her friends, and overpowered by fatigue, Ethel was very shortly fast asleep. At daybreak they set off again, having thus thirty hours' start of their pursuers. They traveled six hours, rested from eleven till three, and then traveled again until dark. Occasionally a sheep lagged behind, footsore and weary.
But Tawaina said to himself, The white men are only curing Tawaina that when the time comes they may see how an Indian can die. But when he was well they brought horses, and put a bow and arrows into our hands and bade us go free. It is only in the battle that the great white chief is terrible. He has a great heart. The enemies he killed he did not triumph over. He laid them in a great grave.
Tawaina asked again. "We do not want to wake the village if we can help it, Tawaina; but I do not see any chance of escaping without a fight. Our horses are all dead beat, and the Indians will easily overtake us, even if we get a night's start." "Mustn't go out on plain," the Raven said earnestly. "If go out on plain, all killed. Indian two hundred and fifty braves eat up white men on plain."
She was sitting upon the ground, when a man, who by his bearing appeared to be the principal chief present, passed in earnest talk with another chief. In the latter she recognized at once one of the wounded Indian prisoners. "Tawaina," she said, leaping to her feet. He paid no attention to her call, and she repeated it in a louder tone. The principal chief stopped; Tawaina did the same.
The Indian chief gave a bound of astonishment and pleasure. "The white brave with the shooting flames?" Tawaina nodded. The Raven's meeting with Ethel had been apparently accidental, but was in reality intentional.
Having told his story, he said, "Tawaina friend to great white chief. Gave signal with arrow; save little White Bird to-day. But Tawaina Indian not like see Indian killed. White chief promise not kill Indian women and children?" Mr. Hardy assured the Indian that they had no thought of killing women and children. "If can take little White Bird without waking village, not kill men?"
Their plan was to steal quietly up to the first hut they found, to gag its inmates, and compel one of them, under a threat of instant death, to guide them to the hut in which Ethel was placed. Suddenly Mr. Hardy was startled by a dark figure rising from a rock against which he had almost stumbled, with the words: "White man good. Tawaina friend. Come to take him to child."
Besides, as we retreat we shall be in darkness, while they will be in the glare." Thus speaking, Mr. Hardy followed his guide, the men he had selected treading cautiously in his rear. Presently they stopped before one of the huts, and pointing to the door, Tawaina said, "Little White Bird there;" and then gliding away, he was lost in the darkness. Mr.
Besides, a week's rest would set our horses up again, and then we could make our retreat in spite of them." "One more thing," the Raven said. "When great chief got little White Bird safe, Tawaina go away not fight one way, not fight other way. When meet again, white chief not talk about to-night. Not great Indian know Tawaina white chief's friend." "You can rely upon us all, Tawaina.
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