"You saw him?"
"I did, and he refused."
"You saw Jennie?"
"No, for she was in the medicine lodge."
"Ah! that looks bad; but it shows that the Red Hatchet intends she shall not be given up, but made a daughter of the tribe."
"So he said."
"Well, did you find out that the red fools intend to fight?"
"I was so disappointed that I asked nothing, returning at once."
"Well, that affair at Wounded Knee has infuriated the soldiers. Sitting Bull, their head, has gone, they have had a fight at the agency, attacked a train and were beaten off, and they killed that fellow Carey——"
"Ha! is Kit Carey dead?" cried Herbert Bernard, eagerly.