The Sioux no longer hesitated, but
advanced deeper into the stream, and soon landed on a point of the
island which his courteous adversary had left free for that purpose.
Had one been there to watch the countenance of Mahtoree, as he crossed
the water that separated him from the most formidable and the most
hated of all his rivals, he might have fancied that he could trace the
gleamings of a secret joy, breaking through the cloud which deep
cunning and heartless treachery had drawn before his swarthy visage;
and yet there would have been moments, when he might have believed
that the flashings of the Teton's eye and the expansion of his
nostrils, had their origin in a nobler sentiment, and one more worthy
of an Indian chief.
The Pawnee awaited the time of his enemy with calmness and dignity.
The Teton made a short run or two, to curb the impatience of his
steed, and to recover his seat after the effort of crossing, and then
he rode into the centre of the place, and invited the other, by a
courteous gesture, to approach.
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