“Long Hair?”
“Yes,” answered the scout.
“It is good—how?”
The Indian extended his hand and the plainsman grasped it.
“How!” he said, “White-man-runs-him?”
“Why does Pa-e-has-ka walk into the arms of the red foe?”
“To learn why the red man is a foe.” Buffalo Bill answered quickly.
“The red warriors gather because they have been robbed,” said the Crow trailer.
“But they are murdering and plundering innocent people who know nothing of treaty rights, as they go to join their chief.”
“Pa-e-has-ka knows that there are no dead Indians on the white man’s ground, but there are many dead white men on the Indian’s land.”