. Deerfoot in the mountains . beforeand accompanied it with a threatening lifting ofhis gnn to a level. The other could not misunderstand the sig--nificance of voice and gesture. He stepped for-ward to pick up his rifle. ^^Stop! shouted the Shawanoe, before theother could stoop. Leave it where it is! Fol-low the horse. The hammer of the leveled rifle was at fullcock. Still unable fully to comprehend all thathad taken place, the chieftain faced about andbroke into a lope after his horse, which acted asif it would keep up its pace for the remainderof the day. Deerfoot waited till the chief had g
. Deerfoot in the mountains . beforeand accompanied it with a threatening lifting ofhis gnn to a level. The other could not misunderstand the sig--nificance of voice and gesture. He stepped for-ward to pick up his rifle. ^^Stop! shouted the Shawanoe, before theother could stoop. Leave it where it is! Fol-low the horse. The hammer of the leveled rifle was at fullcock. Still unable fully to comprehend all thathad taken place, the chieftain faced about andbroke into a lope after his horse, which acted asif it would keep up its pace for the remainderof the day. Deerfoot waited till the chief had gone a hun-dred paces, when heading the other way he gavethe word to Whirlwind, whom, however, he helddown to a walk. The rider wished to witnessdevelopments. Looking back he saw the Assiniboine motion-less and gazing after him with emotions thatcan hardly be imagined or described. He stoodthus for a minute, when he started on a run torecover his rifle from where it lay on the before reaching the spot the party of. «*Now, Whirlwind, Run Him Down. ENEMIES AND FRIENDS. 113 horsemen emerged from the mouth of the canonand paused while their leader rejoined them. It would be interesting to know how hesquared matters with his warriors. It wouldhave required a vivid imagination and a geniusin the way of invention to explain how it washis horse was just vanishing in the distance;how the chief was in the act of recovering hisweapon, and more than all, how it came aboutthat the youthful warrior of a strange tribe,who had already slain one Assiniboine—thoughthat was yet unknown to this party—was ridingleisurely off on the back of the special pet ofthe chieftain. If the Assiniboine was wise hemade a clean breast of it, and insisted that thedusky stranger was a marvel in his way whomit was exceedingly unwise to push into a corner. The chagrin of the Assiniboine party was notsoothed by the action of Deerfoot, who, havingspared the life of an enemy, felt himself justi-fied in
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