Go;
mount; this Pawnee youth and I, and my stout friend the physician, who
is a desperate warrior, are men enough to keep the bank, seeing that
show and not use is all that is needed."
Middleton and Paul saw no use in wasting their breath in remonstrances
against this proposal. Glad to know that their rear was to be covered,
even in this imperfect manner, they hastily got their horses in
motion, and soon disappeared on the required route. Some twenty or
thirty minutes succeeded this movement before the Tetons on the
opposite shore seemed inclined to enter on any new enterprise.
Mahtoree was distinctly visible, in the midst of his warriors, issuing
his mandates and betraying his desire for vengeance, by occasionally
shaking an arm in the direction of the fugitives; but no step was
taken, which appeared to threaten any further act of immediate
hostility. At length a yell arose among the savages, which announced
the occurrence of some fresh event. Then Ishmael and his sluggish sons
were seen in the distance, and soon the whole of the united force
moved down to the very limits of the stream.
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