FORE:Was he quite certain that the trail was of hostiles, and not of cow-boys or of other troops?He tried to see if the soldiers were safe, but though they were not a hundred feet away, the trunks and the mist of water hid them. The rain still pounded down, but the rush of the wind was lessening sensibly.
[Pg 70]"Miss McLane will go, I suppose?" asked Felipa."How many did you say?" he wanted to know, having the laudable intention of committing the man before Brewster.[Pg 34]Did she show the squaw? he asked. "Not unless you knew it was there," the officer said tolerantly. Then he went to bed and slept with that peace of mind which comes of a proud consciousness of holding the handle of the whip. In the morning he got the[Pg 28] man's name and address before he went on up to the Agency.