"My leg is broken."
"What for come here?"
"To get furs."
"This red-skin country?"
This laconic assertion Billy could not contradict, so he wisely held his peace.
"Let see leg," came next.
Billy showed him the bandaged limb, which was broken between the knee and ankle.
Just then another Indian entered whom Billy recognized, as having seen before, and whom he knew to be the great Sioux Chief, Rain-in-the-Face.
Billy called him by name, and he kept back the warriors, who were about to end the boy's life then and there.
"Boy pale-face know chief?" asked Rain-in-the-Face.