Bullets were fired after the pards, but it was a harmless and half-hearted volley.
Buffalo Bill and Dell Dauntless were safe—and they had captured Captain Lawless!
CHAPTER XXVII.
A BUSY TIME FOR CAYUSE.
Little Cayuse did not like the white man’s villages. There was nothing about them that attracted him in the least. While in Montegordo, whither he had been sent by the scout, he attached himself to a seat in the railroad-station, spent the night there, and watched, the next morning, while a man wearing a red vest got off the west-bound train.
That red vest captured the boy’s fancy, and he decided that some time, when the chance offered, he would buy one for himself.
With his doting eyes on the vest, he had gone up to the man wearing it, and asked:
“You De Bray, mebbyso?”
“Why, yes,” answered the stranger, “that’s my name. Who are you, and what of it?”
“You take um stage for Sun Dance, huh?”
“The first one I can get. But, say! Look here a minute——”