He pointed to the two policemen.
"Your dog, savey? I look down—saw-reach! (dog). Look back—saw-reach! This side, that side—saw-reach, Injin police! Maybeso you can't do it. Maybeso make heap trouble!"
"You savey this woman?" said Hal quietly. "Her people, dead! No father, no mother! heap bad men all around, plenty bad men, some whites, some Injin. You leave her alone. Savey?"
Unconsciously the white people speak English to the Indians as the Indians speak it, as we talk baby-talk to a baby.
"Maybeso you too all time pretty quick leave Injin woman alone."
Appah's hand was feeling under his blanket for his knife.
"When I speak with this woman," replied Hal simply, "some of these Indian men are always near. She is not to be troubled—not by you, not by me! Chavanaugh, come here."
One of the policemen came forward.
"If anything bad, any harm, comes to this woman through me, these men will kill me. These are my orders; is it so?"
"Toyoch, wayno," replied Chavanaugh slowly. "It is so and it is well."