THE WOLF HUNTERS 



had said little about the ill feeling that he had 

 stirred up in old Broken Nose, the Kiowa medi- 

 cine-man, but, overhearing a conversation be- 

 tween him and Wild Bill, I learned that Tom was 

 feeling uneasy about this. He suspected that 

 Broken Nose had sent a message to Satank which, 

 he feared, boded us no good. He asked Bill to 

 try to find out something about it. 



After their return next day, at supper Tom in- 

 formed us that while at To hausen's camp Bill 

 had discovered that old Broken Nose had really 

 sent to Satank a secret message, the bearer of 

 which had not returned. Bill could not learn 

 what the message was, but from the old Indian's 

 evident hostility toward Tom, and from certain 

 unfriendly remarks he had been heard to make 

 concerning our killing so many buffalo and other 

 game, there were good reasons to suspect that his 

 purpose was to stir up Satank's well-known ani- 

 mosity toward the whites in general, and direct 

 his attention to us in particular, in order to even 

 up with Tom by bringing the hostiles down on us. 



Some of To hausen's people had told Bill, in a 

 friendly way, to warn us to be sure to close up our 

 work and get away from here, or else look out for 

 trouble from Satank's band as soon as the new 

 grass began to come; but they did not seem to 

 think that Satank's horses would be in condition 

 for him and his warriors to make a raid on us be- 

 fore the grass got up. 



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