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fear he had yet experienced. jaw, and he felt soothed by the fragrance to like the Indian children who played
The Indian carefully inspected the way of herbs. with him and told him the Indian names
Tom was tied, and working the wire with A Jew days later the Indians managed for things. Within six months he was as
his teeth and his fingers, he was able to to call Dr. Glennan from the U.S. Eighth tanned and as wild as his playmates. One
free the boy. He carried Tom into the sun- Cavalry. Gradually Tom grew stronger day when he seemed to have completely
light and unfastened the thong on· his under the loving ministrations of Morg, forgotten the old terror, he saw his play-
wrists. He tried to get Tom to stand, but the squaw. He learned that the Indian in mates disperse like quail and disappear
Tom fell in pain and exhaustion. the beaded vest was Chief Iron Trail and in the undergrowth along a stream. But
Thereafter the Indian carried him that the one who had found him in the We-No-,Na, an Indian girl, grabbed him by
against his musky brown hide, and for the dugout was called White Eagle. the wrist and tried to drag him to safety.
first time Tom realized that he was safer Dr. Glennan explained that it was nec- Then Tom saw that a horseman had
with this savage than he had been in a essary for him to remove the bullet from · suddenly appeared-and that it was Black
long, long time. the back of Tom's neck where it had Mike. He pointed to his jaw scar in order
When Tom saw the hides stretched be- lodged after striking his jaw. This was evi- to make it clear to We-No-Na who this
tween the tepees on poles, he knew that dently such a painful operation that Tom man was.
he was in a Sioux hunting camp. He saw never afterward remembered it. He prob- She shrieked like a screech owl, just as
brown children and square-faced squaws ably blacked out while the doctor was Black Mike dismounted and grabbed the
gather around to peer down at him. He working on him. rawhide band around Tom's waist. He
was placed on a hide on the ground. A . Dr. Glennan had the idea that if the tossed Tom across his saddle and put his
band of braves came running to inspect man who had shot Tom ever heard that foot into his stirrup to remount. Tom sank
him, and their leader was wearing an em- the boy was alive, he might come back to his teeth into Black Mike's hand and start-
broidered vest. kill him. Therefore, he cautioned the ed to kick. During the renewed screech-
This leader attempted to say some Sioux to guard Tom carefully. ing of the children, and while Tom was
words in English, and though Tom could Everybody seemed to doubt that Tom fighting furiously, Black Mike heaved
hardly make his sore mouth speak, he could have come from such a faraway himself into the saddle.
managed to say, "Black Mike shot me." place as Sweetwater, and he did not have ~uddenly a husky voice cried, "Let him
Inquiringly the Indian pantomined the enough strength to insist. Actually, he was go!"
sh9oting of a rifle, and Tom nodded. unable to talk to anybody about the hor- Black Mike started to grab his whip.
A buxom squaw lifted Tom in her arms ror he had witnessed. Whenever he was- But an Indian named Pete hurled himself
and carried him into a tent, placing him questioned he found it impossible to force from his own pony and with one arm
on a mat of buffalo skins. She bathed the his lips to report all that 'had driven him around Black Mike's neck dragged the
gun wound in his neck and crooned over nearly out of his mind. desperate killer off his horse.
him. Then she placed hot poultices on his Tom regained his strength and learned Tom, too, tumbled off and rolled over

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