“Shuffles!”
“If you are calling your man left in charge here, Bonnie Belle, he is dead,” said Buffalo Bill, as no one else seemed to care to speak.
“Shuffles dead?” she repeated, with a start.
“Yes.”
“When did he die?”
“To-night.”
“Ha! he was killed?”
“Ask one of your men here to tell you about it, Bonnie Belle.”
She called a bartender and was told the story. She listened in silence, making no comment, and then turned to Scott Kindon and asked:
“Captain, is this not a case of murder?”