José — page 72: what you’re looking at

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JOSE. 65 CHAPTER V. A DISCOVERY. Ten days elapsed, during which the caravan con- tinued its way quietly and without interruption. Not a human being appeared, and no sound dis- turbed the quiet of the solemn night. Thus the train reached Council Grove, a small village inhabited by white men with Indian wives. Here, the stately mission house, with surroundings of inclosed and cultivated fields, intersected by a bountiful stream, appeared like an oasis in the desert. Green endeavored to obtain the most re- liable information in regard to the reported revolt of the Comanches, but none of the settlers claimed to have heard of it. They had been told, they said, that some slight disagreement had arisen between the Government agents and the Indians, in the Arkansas valley, but nobody attached any impor- tance to the matter, as similar cases were of frequent occurrence, without ever resulting in anything seri- ous. Green communicated the result of his investi- cation to the men with relieved feelings, but there were no signs either of re-assurance or doubt from any one but Dutch Bill who gravely nodded his head and remarked, “We must take things as they come.” Mr. Green spent many hours riding with Jose and conversing with him on various subjects. “There is a strange spirit in the boy, which forces itself through much of his ignorance and odd notions about things in general, and affords mea great deal of pleasure on account of its unique char- Gomichboo Ss