Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-15
A Daughter 9! the Sioux
By GEN. CHARLES KING.
Copyright, lsoa, by The Hobart Company.

k < #~t haaaa "Hf 6ss < Nothing can be done just now," answered Waller, gravely. "He has had high fever during the night has been wakeful and flighty again. I-should rather no one entered just now" .'.
 And then they noted that even the steward who had been with poor Field was now lowering about the door of the dispensary and that only Dr. Waller remained within the room. T am hoping to get him to sleep again presently" said he. And when he is mending there will be a host. of things for you both to-do."
 But that mending seemed many a day off,, and Mrs. Hay, poor woman, had graver cares of her own before the setting sun. Avoiding the possi- bility of meeting the general just now, and finding Mrs. Dade both si- lent and constrained at mention of her niece's name, the traders wife went straight homeward from the hospital, and did not even see the post commander hurrying from his office, with an open dispatch in his hand. But by this time the chief and his faithful aide were out on the ve- randa, surrounded by anxious wives and daughters, many of whom had been earnestly bothering the doctor at the hospital before going to break fast. Dade much wished them away. though the news brought in by night riders was both stirring and cheery. The Indians had fitted away from Webb's front, and he counted on reaching and rescuing the Dry Fork party within six hours from the time the courier started. They might ex- pect the good news during the after noon of Thursday. Scouts and flank CTS reported finding "travois" and pony, tracks leading westward from the scene of Rays fierce battle, in- dicating that the Indians had carried their dead and wounded into the fast nesses of the southern slopes of the Big Horn, and that their punishment bdu Dtth 'ht ,hiNAS killed or seriously wounded was this new, vehement leader whom Capts. Blake and Ray thought might be Red Fox. who was so truculent at the Black Hills conference the previous year. Certain of the men, however, who had seen Red Fox at that time expressed doubts. Lieut.. Field, said Webb, had seen him, and could prob ably say.
 Over this dispatch the general pom dered gravely. From what I know of Red Fox" said he, ''I should think him leader of the Sitting Bull type "a shrewd. intriguing. mischief-mak- ing fellow, sort of Sioux walking delegate. not a battle leader, but ac- cording to Blake and Ray this new man is fighter"
 Then Mrs. Dade came out and bore the general of to breakfast, and dur ing breakfast the chief was much pre- occupied. Mrs. Dade and an aide-de- camp chatted on social matters. The general exchanged an occasional word with his host and his hostess, and finally surprised neither of them, when breakfast was over and he had consumed the last of his glass of hot water, by saying to his staff officer: "I should like to see Mrs. Hay a few ..ainutes, if possible. We'll walk round there first. Then-let the team be ready at ten o'clock"
 But the team. although ready. did not start northward at ten, and the general. though he saw Mrs. Hay. had no speech with her upon the import ant matters uppermost in his mind during the earlier hours of the day. He found that good lady in a state of wild excitement and alarm. One of the two outriders who had started with her husband and niece at dawn .sss mounted on dun-colored pony. vith white face and feet. One of the two troopers sent by Dsde to overtake and bring them back was turning . blown and exhausted horse over to the care of Hays stablemen. ss he briefly told his story to the wiid-eyed, well-nigh distracted 70 man Six miles up stream, he said they had come suddenly upon a dun colored COW pony. dead in his tracks. with white feet in air and white muz- kle bafbed in blood. bride. saddle and rider gone: signs of struggle in places; no signs of the party. the team and wagons anywhere
 And no cavalry to send out after them.- said Dzde. when he reschesi the spot. old Crz6b was called at once and mustered four semi-inyalid troopers The infantry supplied half . dozen stout riders- and, with .