“How soon after the explosion did Price appear?”
“Why, he showed up while we were trying to pull the people out of the wreck before the fire drove us away.”
“Thank you,” said Buffalo Bill.
“Why, you don’t suspect Jim Price of anything like that, do you?”
“Oh! I thought he might prove to be a good witness if an inquiry was made,” answered the scout.
In his own mind Buffalo Bill was satisfied that Price had attempted to blow the scout and his pards into eternity. So far as brave Hickok was concerned it seemed that the wretch had been successful.
Buffalo Bill had succeeded better than he had expected in the beginning of the unraveling of the government’s skein of Indian difficulties.