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44 eae ? as Fostig. 205 Peon Cameron and his party have joined Masor Dal-. las, and the column is resting in camp after the tiresome fighting and marching of the past week. If the Indians Teally have them in a trap, and can surround them, it will be the Custer affair over again. Oh, if I could only escape to warn them ! But I don’t see any chance—— Fle looked into Deerfoot’s face, and asked, carelessly: “Where are the soldiers? Near here?” 99 “Ten miles that way,” replied the Indian, pointing due | south. “They encamped in hollow—stream on one side, and mountain on the other. When midnight comes my people burn Bruce at stake, then march to fight sol- | diers. Gray Fox come from other direction at same.time. In early morning we fall on soldiers—cut them to pieces.” After a pause, Deerfoot added: "We leave you here with old men and squaws, Linn. ~ By and by we come back. Then we adopt you in my tribe—make you Indian like me. If you no do that, we — keep you prisoner all time.” ) “All right, Deerfoot,’ replied Linn. “Tl think it) Over and give you an answer when you come back. It’s. no usé to talk any more about Bruce, so we'll let the mat- ter drop. I have the satisfaction of knowing that I did all I could for him.- But I want you to grant me one favor. When a white man is going to die, his friends like to bid him: farewell alone. Will you let me see Bruce for a few minutes this evening to bid him good-by. I have paper and pencil with me, and perhaps he will write a confession that he stole the money. If he does, I will send it home to Carlisle, and then my friends will know 1 am not a thief.” Linn waited with ill-concealed anxiety for the answer, for on that pune the success or failure of a plan that had DES