"Then, Chief, Bulldog asks the favor, not for himself, but for the good of Standing Bear and his Braves."
"What asks the Bulldog of Standing Bear?"
"That he give into the hand of the White Mother's Redcoat the two moneas, the Frenchmen; and that he strike the tepees and command the squaws to load them on the travois, and lead the braves back to the reserve."
Running Antelope pushed himself between Carney and the Chief, and in rapid, fierce language denounced this request to Standing Bear.
A ringing whoop of approval from the bucks greeted Antelope's harrangue.
"My braves will not go back to the reserve, Bulldog," the Chief declared.
"Is Standing Bear Chief of the Stonies?" Carney asked; "or is he an old outcast buffalo bull—and does the herd follow Running Antelope?"
The Chief's face twisted with the shock of this thrust, and Running Antelope scowled and flashed a hunting knife from his belt.
"If Standing Bear is Chief of the Stonies, the White Mother's Redcoat asks him to deliver the two evil moneas " Carney added.
Standing Bear seemed to waver; his yellow-streaked black-pointed eyes swept back and forth from the faces of the white men to the faces of the braves.