In Barracks and Wigwam — page 123: what you’re looking at

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a eee / ~_ ~<- A Sinaiens Boek the Colonel. a ae Flying Thunder ruled anidkeds of hot-blooded warriors, the situation was fully as ominous. The old chief was more angry and sullen than ever because of the loss of his son and the cavalier treatment he had received from _ the Government, and it was said that he was in constant communication with Gray Fox. Nor was this the worst. A defiant and threatening attitude had suddenly devel- oped on all the other reservations, far and near, of the mighty clan of. Sioux-—among the Minneconjou and --Uncapapa, the Santee and Blackfoot. Experienced officers and men alike read these signs - correctly, and predicted a general and speedy outbreak, and one that would be hard to quell. Special significance was added to the situation by the fact that Flying Thun- der had suddenly ended his appeals to the Government, -and'that Gray Fox had neither made any further demands for the surrender of Harkness nor lodged complaint tor. the death of his brother and the four braves. So matters stood at the end of a week, and of all that — had happened in the interval Private Osborne had been kept.informed by his kindly disposed jailers. For, sad to relate, Linn had been thrown into the guard-house on the morning after his return to the fort, charges having been preferred against him by Captain Norman. | And there the lad still languished, in solitude and men- tal suffering. He felt bitterly the injustice of his treat- ment, but he had little hope of being vindicated and right- ed. The ambitious career he had marked out for himself — seemed to have crumbled to ashes, and now, with the show of disgrace and punishment hanging over him, he felt that the future was not worth living for. It was terribly hard, coming just at_a time when opportunities — _ for proniyticn and active service promised to be so plenti- comicbooks Linn | had 1 plenty. of -symipathizng friends, but in the ¢o m |