“They are one day behind us.”
“Who leads them?”
“Tangua, the chief himself, at the head of two hundred braves.”
“And you expect to overcome the Apaches?”
“We will come upon them as the eagle swoops on the heron that has not seen him.”
“My brother is mistaken. The Apaches know that they are to be attacked by the Kiowas.”
The Fox shook his head incredulously, and replied: “How could they know it? Do their ears reach to the tent of the Kiowas?”
“Yes.”
“I do not understand my brother Sam; he must tell me what he means.”
“The Apaches have ears which can walk and ride; yesterday we saw two such ears that had been listening at the camp of the Kiowas.”