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want with me ? " " Oh ! " I said, feeling rather 

 aggrieved at this reception, " I beg your pardon for 

 intruding. We don't want anything. We thought 



probably you were expecting us. General 



said he would write, and so we thought we 

 would call, and — " " Why, my dear sir, I am 

 most delighted to see you, most happy to make 

 your acquaintance," cried the Doctor, shaking 

 hands violently. " Why did you not say who you 

 were ? won't you introduce me to your friends ? 

 Expecting you, why of course I have been expecting 

 you this ever so long, began to think you must 

 have been jumped by Indians. By Jove, I came 

 pretty near losing my scalp a couple of days ago. 

 I went out for a drive in the afternoon, thinking 

 I might meet you, and six of those infernal Sioux 

 ran right on top of me and chased me clean up to 

 the fort. If I had not had a pretty good horse, 

 I should have been in a tight place, I can tell you, 

 but there are not many Indian ponies that can 

 get near the mare I was driving. She is a beauty. 

 I must take you out for a drive to-morrow (No, 

 I thank you, thinks I, not any for me. I don't 

 want to be chased round Wyoming in a buggy by 

 a parcel of Sioux Indians). In the meantime you 

 are pretty hungry, I expect. What ! come in all 



