The
arrangements were brief, and soon completed. When they were all ready,
they took a short and silent leave of the squatter and his family; and
then the whole of the singularly constituted party were seen slowly
and silently following the victorious Pawnee towards his distant
villages.
CHAPTER XXXII
And I beseech you,
Wrest once the law, to your authority:
To do a great right, do a little wrong.
--Shakspeare.
Ishmael awaited long and patiently for the motley train of Hard-Heart
to disappear. When his scout reported that the last straggler of the
Indians, who had joined their chief so soon as he was at such a
distance from the encampment as to excite no jealousy by their
numbers, had gone behind the most distant swell of the prairie, he
gave forth the order to strike his tents. The cattle were already in
the gears, and the movables were soon transferred to their usual
places in the different vehicles.
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