Two arrows : a story of red and white . shirts and slouched hats ofthe miners. The Big Tongue was no longer parading overthe slope in front of the gap. He had even cut short anuncommonly fine whoop in his retreat to a place as safe asthat occupied by Na-tee-kah or Ha-ha-pah-no. There were excellent reasons for such a retreat, for sev-eral scores of Apaches were now riding back and forth,just out of good rifle-range, as if they were a little indoubt as to what they had better do next. Not an Apacheamong them had an idea how many might be the riflesamong those rocks, but all were sure that they
Two arrows : a story of red and white . shirts and slouched hats ofthe miners. The Big Tongue was no longer parading overthe slope in front of the gap. He had even cut short anuncommonly fine whoop in his retreat to a place as safe asthat occupied by Na-tee-kah or Ha-ha-pah-no. There were excellent reasons for such a retreat, for sev-eral scores of Apaches were now riding back and forth,just out of good rifle-range, as if they were a little indoubt as to what they had better do next. Not an Apacheamong them had an idea how many might be the riflesamong those rocks, but all were sure that they were was just as Jonas had said, and Yellow Pine. It re-quired an immense amount of courage to ride up to hid-den sharp-shooters, and the Apaches were disposed towhoop a good deal before they tried the head chief had commanded that there should be norandom firing, and now he was disposed to try what couldbe done with a talk. One solitary brave rode forwarda distance in advance of his comrades, dismounted, laid. his right hand with the palm up to show that he was peaceful. The Apaches have Come. 223 down his rifle and lance, took off lire pistol-belt ostenta-tiously, held up his hands wide open to declare himselfunarmed, reached out his right hand with the palm up tosay that he was peaceful, and then walked slowly forward. Wants to get near enough to see what he can see,said Yellow Pine. Snake trick. Ill go out and meethim, jedge. No, Pine, I dont want you to run any risk. Risk % Not a bit of it. I say, Jonas, Ill let him comeinto good fair range. Keep him covered. If he tries anybad game Ill just drop flat. Thats what hell do next thing, said Jonas, as herested his rifle over the log in front of him, and it seemedas if every other miner at once followed his example. Go ahead then, Pine, said the judge; see what hewants. For that matter, jedge, said Pine, Id as lief as nottry a hand-to-hand fight with any redskin in that lot. He left his weapons behind
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