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As a trapper of Taos, he might also be an associate of Utah hunters; and personally unknown to the Mormons, they would have no other thoughts about him further than that their friend Wa-ka-ra had sent him to guide them across the deserts of the Colorado.
The band of Wa-ka-ra recoiled for a moment. It was by far the weakest; and had it been left to itself, would have sustained defeat in this terrible encounter. But the Utahs were armed both with rifles and pistols; and the latter, playing upon the ranks of the Arapahoes, were fast thinning them.
That is your affair; but mine is that the Red-Hand may not escape. If he do, there's one will grieve at it one to whom I owe life and protection." "Of whom do you speak?" "Of the mortal enemy of Red-Hand and his Arapahoes of Wa-ka-ra." "Wa-ka-ra?" "Head chief of the Utahs you shall see him presently. Put your horse to his speed! We are close to the camp.
We drew up on the ground where the collision had occurred with the band of Wa-ka-ra. We looked upon a spectacle that might at any other time have horrified us. A hundred bodies lay over the sward, all dead. There were Utahs as well as Arapahoes; but, though we could not distinguish the warriors of the two tribes in the confusion of the fight, there was no difficulty in identifying their dead.
Horses were galloping around, their lazos trailing at will; while weapons of every kind spears, shields, bows, quivers, and arrows were strewed over the sward. A group of about a dozen men appeared at some distance, clustered around a particular object. It was the dead body of a man a chief, no doubt? Not without feelings of apprehension did I approach the spot. It might be the noble Wa-ka-ra?
"If it be the wish of the white huntress, Wa-ka-ra will avenge the blood even though his own people may have spilled it. Speak, Ma-ra-nee! You say that red men have done this were they Utahs?" "No; but the enemies of the Utahs." "The Utahs have many enemies on the north, south, east, and west they have foes. Whence comes the stranger? and who has been spilling his blood?"
They were in need of a guide; and having encountered the Indian at this crisis, and learnt that he belonged to the band of Wa-ka-ra not far off, as the man informed them they had despatched him to the Utah chief, with a request that the latter would furnish them with a guide, and two or three of his best hunters. Before Marian had ended her explanation, I had divined the scheme.
It was a troop of horsemen the warriors of Wa-ka-ra. On giving the signal they had issued forth from the lower canon, and were coming up the valley at a gallop.
"Your horse! your horse! Hasten, or we shall be too late. The Red-Hand in the valley of the Huerfano! Wa-ka-ra will rejoice at the news. Your horse! your horse!" I hastened back for my Arab, and hurriedly led him up to the spot. "A beautiful creature!" exclaimed she, on seeing the horse; "no wonder you were able to ride off from your captors. Mount!" "And you?" "I shall go afoot.
She went slowly as if irresolute both as to the act and the direction. In both, the horse appeared to have his will: the reins rested loosely upon his withers; while his rider seemed wrapped in a silent abstraction. I was hastening towards my Arab, with the design of joining her, when I saw that I was anticipated. Another had conceived a similar intention. It was Wa-ka-ra.
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