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fine-looking Kiowa, while I rode off to visit the 

 Apache and Comanche camps in search of Indian 

 arrows and other curiosities. Happening to 

 look back when a mile or two from the Post, I 

 saw a lot of cavalrymen riding at full speed to- 

 ward me. I waited until they reached me and 

 then said to the officer in charge: 



"Are you looking for me, Lieutenant?'' 



"The General sends word that there is so much 

 disaffection over the Satanta trouble that it isn't 

 safe for you to go out of sight of the Post and he 

 has made me responsible for you, so I'm going 

 wherever you go." 



"I'm glad of that, but was that all the General 

 said?' 9 



"I understood him to observe, quite unoffi- 

 cially, however, that he didn't mind your being 

 killed so much as he did the chance of criticism 

 from headquarters." 



The lieutenant helped me in my trading at 

 the Apache camp and at the Comanche camp I 

 found Tavetossa. I was collecting arrows from 

 different tribes and I made signs that I wanted 



