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Updated: June 8, 2025
"I'd almost forgotten about Wonota and Totantora." Ruth shook her head. "I am not likely to forget that," she said. She explained to the young man as they got into the launch and he pushed out from the shore about the difficulty that had arisen over the Indians. He was naturally deeply interested in Ruth's trouble and in the fate of the Indians.
All them Injuns is crazy to be play-actors, you know. Even old Chief Totantora was till he got mixed up with them Germans when the war come on. "Huh? You savvy my idee, Miss? Jest tell her she's better off with the show than she would be anywhere else. Will you? Do as I say, Miss, and I'll slip you a bunch of tickets for all your friends.
He is one of those who have tried to get Chief Totantora and me to go away from you to make pictures. He offers much money. And while we talked, those other two men crept up behind us and they all seized Chief Totantora and me. We were bound and our mouths closed before we knew how many, or how few, our enemies were. Then my father was left in the wood and I was carried to the boat.
The chief was not a patient man, and the possible threat against the safety of his daughter roused in him the instinct of defence. "Me watch," he said. "That fat man come here, me chase him away. Yes!" "Don't do him any harm, Totantora," warned Ruth. "But tell Mr. Hammond or me if you see him."
Let her deny herself in such a cause it will not hurt her," the girl of the Red Mill said sensibly. "She has an object in life and should be encouraged to follow out her plan for helping Chief Totantora." "Maybe he is not alive now," said Helen, thoughtfully. "I would not suggest that," Ruth hastened to rejoin. "As long as she can hope, the better for Wonota.
She determined herself, however, to be sharply on the watch for the reappearance of the coarse little fat man who had so troubled her and the Indians at the Red Mill. She took Totantora into her confidence, after speaking to Mr. Hammond, although she did not say a word to Wonota.
And this very attempt of the rival picture producer to foul his trail impressed Ruth that something serious regarding Wonota and her father was afoot. If the Indian girl had not gone with Bilby, where had she gone? And where was Totantora? Ruth could not believe that either Wonota or her father would prove faithless to their contract with Mr. Hammond not intentionally, at least.
And to show that the new West, ladies and gentlemen, is right up to the minute in this as in every other pertic'lar, we offer Wonota, daughter of Chief Totantora, princess of the Osage Indians, in a rifle-shooting act that, ladies and gentlemen, is simply marv'lous simply marv'lous!"
"That will settle the controversy, I believe," Mr. Hammond said to the two girls. "Bilby's attempt to annoy us must fall through now. We will get Totantora and Wonota back from Canada and finish the picture properly. But, believe me! I have had all the experience I want with freak stars. The expense and trouble I have been put to regarding Wonota has taught me a lesson.
Before the Indian girl could have answered had she intended to explain the canoe came close in to the bank of the island, was swerved dexterously, and Totantora leaped ashore a feat not at all easy to perform without overturning the canoe. It scarcely rocked. He stooped and held it from scraping against the rock, and shot up at his daughter several brief sentences in their own tongue.
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