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Crow Wing's eyes flashed and he drew himself up proudly. "Me no lie me speak true. Injin not two-tongue like white man!" he declared, with scorn, and turning his back on his traducer, stalked out of the house. The settlers, however, paid little attention to his departure. Enoch scuttled back to the ridge where 'Siah was waiting to hear the news.
Oh, isn't that Irish? But one can think anybody a rotter without hating them, can't one?" Fiorsen bit his lips. "So you think me a 'rotter'?" Daphne Wing's eyes grew rounder. "But aren't you? You couldn't be anything else could you? with the sort of things you did." "And yet you don't mind having tea with me?"
She dropped the fish, dived, and dodged the blow, and the robber, with a rushing swoop that was glorious in its sweep, in its speed and ease, caught the eel within a wing's reach of me and the track. I did not know what to do with my spoil.
By this time Bryce, who had kept the old musket by his side since Crow Wing's warning, and slept in the loft, was aroused by the disturbance, and he pushed up the corner of the bark roof and blazed away at the beast just as it scrambled through the wreck of the hog fence.
For many years the payment of annuities that had been promised the Sioux was an annual reminder of these treaties. It was necessary that each Indian receive his portion of the goods and money in person in order to prevent fraud. In the late summer of each year all the warriors of Red Wing's and Wabasha's villages would leave their homes for the fort.
"And I am going to throw it away. That is like a woman, isn't it?" He glanced at her, and then at his watch. "See here, Honora, I ought to go over to Mr. Wing's. I wired him I'd be there at four-thirty." "Don't let me keep you," she replied. "By gad, you are pale!" he said. "What's got into the women these days? They never used to have these confounded nerves.
Do you know, ma'am, that little thing was that contented by the end of the week that I could leave the windows open an' nary a wing's stroke away would it go? That was in December, 'fore it got to be known that I kep' a bird in my room.
And she would look piercingly at Gyp's hair or ears, at her hands or her instep, to see how it was done. The burial worried her dreadfully. "I'm using the name of Daisy Wing; she was christened 'Daisy' and the Wing's professional, so that takes them both in, and it's quite the truth. But I don't think anyone would connect it, would they?
The old chief, Crow Wing's father, was dead, and the youth himself aspired to be the leader of his people. From a word or two he let drop and from his manner of speaking, Enoch judged that the older men of the tribe had some doubt of Crow Wing's ability to govern the braves; but evidently the youth had strong hopes of gaining their confidence and that by some act in the near future.
If any on 'em woke up they was to ride the nightmare er lay still. Jack an' me an' Buckeye sneaked back up the trail fer 'bout twenty rod with our guns, an' then I told the young Injun to shoot off the moose call. Wall, sir, ye could 'a' heerd it from Albany to Wing's Falls. The answer come an' jest as I 'spected, 'twere within a quarter o' a mile.
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