As it had been hoped, the Indians did not discover the loss of Little Cayuse, and were taken completely by surprise.
They were surrounded in their village and easily overcome at daylight. Some of the leaders were held prisoners, but the others sent back to the reservation.
Price and Bloody Ike were once more in the hands of the army with added charges hanging over them. It was learned eventually that they had escaped through the connivance of the brother-in-law of Price, who was also a half-brother of Captain Smith. The latter was dismissed from the army for the part he had played, and his half-brother was given two years in a military prison in addition to dismissal.
The former Indian agent did not escape this time, and served a long term in the penitentiary. There was not much that could be proven directly against Bloody Ike, but in an attempt to escape he was shot and killed by a soldier on guard.
Tootsie returned to make glad the hearts of his parents, after having derived much benefit from his association with Buffalo Bill and his pards.
The little Indian girl was taken East with Mona and Mrs. Sherley, and took up school work gladly and with the promise of rewarding her fair patroness by her good advancement and of eventually becoming a useful member of society.
THE END.
No. 129 of The Buffalo Bill Border Stories, entitled “Buffalo Bill’s Sure Guess,” is one of the most entertaining stories of the king of scouts, and gives the reader an insight into the wildest of wild Indian life.
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