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For Wounding—Retaliation Finally she interrupted. “Dad, you’re mean as dirt! J ane talk _ Pima!” . “All right, kiddie,” he smiled. you ask Inez to tell it again.” Inez accommodated. Amazed, disgusted, sometimes horror- “Suppose stricken, the softly nurtured daughter of the dominant race listened to a tale told by a wise old woman of the dominated ones. Words failed the girl, and openly and without shame, she wept. Inspector Shane did not weep, but his eyes held a hard look and his jaw had a grim set as the words came from the old woman’s lips. “Inez,” he said finally, ‘you make this Kyle out to be a pretty poor stick.’* “Him bad egg!’’ she asserted venereal: “T believe you,” he replied, “but what proof can you give?” “Proofr’”’ she countered. ‘Jus’ look at him face! Plenty proof! What more you wan’?”’ “You are right, old friend from other days,” he agreed gravely; ‘‘but I must have more than that before I can make trouble for him. ne ip her father she felt sure of it. As a result, the next morning they headed the car west from the agency, and ' as soon as possible, described an arc which eventually brought them again to the jacal. Shane wasted little breath this time in - compliments. “Inez,” he demanded; know about this booze-running on the reservation?” “Know too much—an’ me know not’in’!”’ she returned cryptically. - “Well,” he retorted, “tell me what you do know!” “Me know white mans never catch ’em!”’ “Huh!” he grunted. “Why note” “Does the coyote await the coming of the sheep-dogs?”’ she asked blandly. ——!” he growled. , ““You’re dead right!” Then he added— “Can Inez teach me how coyotes may be trapped?”’ “Injun-man—him catch!” she asserted. “Get George Two-Deers back on reserva- tion — him Injun — buy mescal — buy sed diettec time fin’ out = eas THAT night his daughter had a bright idea. At least, she thought ~ it was, and after submitting same “what do you 133 —come sheriff-feller—goo ’-by booze-mans! You sabe?” . Shane took. off his hat in a gesture of admiration—twice. Once in homage to her reasoning. The other time as tribute to her finesse. Hehad a shrewd idea she wanted the little Star- ’ gleam to hob-nob with. He knew the Indian mind pretty well, for a white man. “All right, old lady,” he assured her; “‘if we can get word to young Two-Deers, I’ll give him the job!” Without further parley Inez coolly clam- bered into the front seat of the car and settled herself comfortably beside him. . « vA s , ry eee 4 nwt “Were you planning on going any placé © especially?” he asked a trifle sarcastically. “Go get George,” she stated in a matter- of-fact tone. “You run you’ tin bronco that way!” and she pointed straight south with her skinny arm. “My Lord!” gasped Shane amazedly to his daughter, who was convulsed with merriment. “Tin bronco—my car! Any one’d think to listen to her, she: owned a better one!’’ And for thirty-seven miles as the giant ~ mechanism hurled them onward, he re- peated at intervals in an awed tone, “ “Tin Bronco!’ Aw ! What’s the use!”’ Five miles north of the boundary they halted, and from then on, Inez became boss with a large “‘B.” Inspector Shane was imperiously ordered | to gather wood—“all same peon’”—as he gravely informed his daughter who fairly reveled in the sight. Inez herself had more important business. She needed a certain weed, and it took her an hour to find enough of it to suit her. Then a fire was kindled and a column of greasy, blackish smoke rose straight toward the stainless blue. ‘Wireless outfit,” chuckled Shane to the deeply interested girl, who had heard and read of such things, but had never expected to see them carried out. A small handful of the weed thrown on the fire by the old woman, and the smoke changed to a bright yellow. And so; in some code known to Inez and known likewise by some Pima living in the Indian village beyond the border, with alternate puffs of black and yellow smoke, George Two-Deers was summoned to hold conference with Inspector Shane of the Indian Bureau. OOK se Bd ies , : ea | “yin REN Tre ena he ie tile Bip NG Erle al baie bl at ce oa oie yates , ; ‘we yet bt Sa re i Shed 4 J) iy i : “yy % Mas : : Shae . Lh Lis UT i , AUC VJe ye ae write ea iy iy Lain Fy fay! yh si ih te Viet ae ad " ¥ NERO AER PEA CORN te ea ReCtS RO VNEy TUTE Ces Bat ae aye inert latoon ivy i ie te $ 4i WL A YK? a es Seoul | pd@ale com - r bus =} aii fs ) pet oh die ih sip! Lope M ay AWN teat ILM ¢ ee eel ei Sr As