The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-08-22

her and that a white man could never
really care Tor an Indian.
A white girl, when she finds out that
the man she loves does not love her AS
he has SO passionately declared must
smile so that the world cannot see the
agony in her eyes. An Indian girl does
not smile. She merely plans her re-
venge, and when the time comes the
man who has made her love Il joke
must suffer all that she suffered, only
more.
And SO 1t was that for the three days
and nights Willis Andale lay fiat on
Ills back on an alkal desert in Okla
homa, with his hands and feet staked
TO the ground and his eyes looking
straight up into the brassy heavens.
The river flowed near by and the
sound of its rushing waters fell on his
ears, but no drop of the cooling flood
touched his parched and burning lips
He cried aloud for food, and the Indian
maiden who sat by him day and night
gloating at his sufferings leaned over
and ate food before his eyes so that
he might suffer the more.
Three days and three long nights the
Indian girl kept her sleepless vigil by
the side Of her faithless lover Then
death mercifully came and put his seal
ON the poor, tortured, up-turned face
that looked up from the burning sands.
Anna kildeer was avenged.
This story goes to show that flirting
Is not regarded in Oklahoma |. the
same amiable light in which it is looked
upon in Chicago. A man may break q
promise he has made in business in
Chicago and he is called liar, but he
breaks a solemn promise to a girl and
he gets a reputation at the club of be-
ing something of sly dog. Anna Kill
deer's people are not the kind that look
upon these things in that light.
The cowboys on the big X ranch
in the Kiowa and Comanche Indian
reservations near Darlington, in the
Indian Territory, have been In the
habit OF going over to the indian VII
lagos in the evenings and taking the
young women out horseback riding.
Time out of working hours hangs heav-
lily on the hands of men who have so
little diversion as these cowboys on
the reservation. but none of them had
any Intention of inspiring an 1nfatua
eiOn in the breasts of the Indian girls.
They rode over to the Indian village,
merely for lack of somewhere else to
go. and they thought the Indians liked
to hnve them come and enjoyed their
visits.
Willis Andale was young fastener
who had gone out to Oklahoma for ad-
venture and to improve his health He
was extremely handsome and had
dashing, daring manner that appealed
to women. He had private means, so
that his dress and his trappings were
mach finer than those of the ordinary
cowboys, and served to give him an
added fascination, to the Indian bellies.
Anna Kildeer was an extremely good
looking Comanche girl, and the Com
stnche girls are about the best looking
of Indian maidens. Her father was a
chief who was counted rich in the
COmanche country. Anna had been
much among the whites and had fair
education and was clever and interest
Ing. But she was an Indian and she
had no sense Of humor
Young Andale paid marked attention
TO Anna. He took her riding every
evening, and undc-5t tie great moon that
hung low over the endless plains Of
Oklahoma he told her the soft sweet
nothfngs that man is expected to say
when sitting on the veranda Of the
Astmmer resort hotel at night. 1t seems
that he is not expected to say them
In the Comanche country.
Andnle was greatly surprised when
his friends, the other cowboys, told
him that Anna Killeer had fallen des-
perately In love with him and that she
would expect him to marry her. Andale
Immediately rode over to Annals home
and took her out for ride. Then he
told her that he not meant what he said
and that he had not thought she was
taking what he said in earnest.
%. you love me- said the Indian
girls slowly. You love me, for you
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