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AWAY IN THE WILDERNESS.
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not punish you for the deeds of another man of
your tribe.”
“ How does the white man know that this was
done by Darkeye t” asked a chief, haughtily.
“ I know it,” said Jasper, angrily ; “ I feel sure
of it; but I cannot prove it—of course. Does
Arrowhead agree with me V’
“ He does !” replied the Indian, “ and there
may be proof. Does Jasper remember the trading
store and the bitten bullet ? ”
A gleam of intelligence shot across the coun¬
tenance of the white hunter as his comrade said
this. “True, Arrowhead, true.”
He turned, as he spoke, to the body of his late
father-in-law, and examined the wound. The ball,
after passing through the heart, had lodged in the
back, just under the skin.
“ See,” said he to the Indians, “ I will cut out
this ball, but before doing so I will tell how I
think it is marked.”
He then related the incident in the trading
store, with which the reader is already acquainted,
and afterwards extracted the ball, which, although
much flattened and knocked out of shape, showed
clearly the deep marks made, by the Indian’s teeth.
Thus, the act which had been done slyly but boast¬
fully before the eyes of a comrade, probably as
wicked as himself, became the means whereby
Darkeye’s guilt was clearly proved.