"I have; we've got a friend on the outside, and he's doing us good
sarvice, as he has already proved. If Lone Wolf wasn't among that crowd, I
don't belave they would stay after what has took place; there's nothing to
scare an Injun like them things which he don't understand."

"I should think that that rifle-shot is proof enough that somebody is
firing into them."

"Be the powers, but ye know little of Injin devilments, as I've larned 'em
from Soot Simpson. How do ye know but that's a thrick to make these
Apaches belave that there's but a single Kiowa over there popping at them,
when there may be half a hundred waiting for the chance to clean them
out?"

"Maybe that is Sut himself; you know you have been expecting him."

"It can't be him," replied Mickey, with a shake of his head. "He would
have showed himself long ago, when he could be sure of helping us. There
must be some redskins over there that have put up a job on Lone Wolf and
his scamps."

"Whoever it is, whether one or a dozen, they are helping us mightily."

"So it looks, though they don't mean it for that, and after driving these
spalpeens away, they may come over to clean us out themselves."

Nothing was heard of the redskins above for a considerable time after the
shot mentioned. Then the body was suddenly whisked out of sight. It is a
principle with Indians to bring away their dead from any fight in which