New-York tribune., 1908-07-05

conceit Of Neutrality-suspicious. indeed these
brave lads We're to us
Coming of the End
L fore thev were we'll settled behind the
wall (Which made Us an excellent breaStwOrk
here came the Brhles, qulrts pounding on
StraIn1ug shoulders, moCcaS1ned heels drum
ming on hea wing danks, the herce r1derS lying
low over the WItherS and getting every last
lump out OF their piebaId Cayuse mounts
Here they came, nearly four hundred q
item. charging straight on our position before
the Office an irregular but solid mass OF STRAIN
ing horses and yelling riders, apparently bent
on riding Us dOwn,-a living, breathing. sen
tIent vet remorseless tide, weighty enough 70
raze wall and Office to the ground at the hrst
impact. and leave naugat behind but sphntered
boards and bones.
Here they came, and there we sat, ours lar
the hardest part OF It: theirs the excitement
and hope OF conquest born OF charge IN over
whel1ling numbers; ours the dull chill wait
for the end bred OF a sense OF hopeless ODDS
against Us; theirs the hot, savage lust Tor
blood; ours the despair OF men condemned
past hope of TeprleVe. Hope Such send-
-77t.rt foT US no more existed. Even were We
able to withstand the Brules for a time, II still
remained a certainty that the prevailing hos
tilitv TO the police would bring the whole
Oglala tribe IN upon us 50 soon as powder
burned and blood ran.
under no circumstances till ordered! nothing
more.
On they came, and vet on. Time and again
! caught a bead on the chief breast with my
45-I2o Sharps, which easily might have sent
HIM into permanent camp on Ghost Creek
and It Is a miracle that /, or none OF the otheIs
pulled trigger
At length. when their steady onrush must
have become trying even to McGlhcuddy 5
iron nerves, they Teined in and stopped a
Il
scant sixty yards IN front OF us why "4d
only knows unless the steady nerve OF the
doctors control OF got on their nerves
But stop, happily, they did grlIl heav1ng
threatening mass, dark1v outlined against the
wall Of gray dust behind them, ieathered war
bonnets dancing, ponies prancIng, sh1elds
rafting weapons cleaning. And there they
STAYED, for Heaven only knows how long, until
II would have been Tehet 10 see the charge
renewed
With the best of Us there IS always a break
ing point Presently Doctor McGilllcuddy's
lump out there, Louis" he called to
the Interpreter, and tell that old devil TO
chase himself back to camp! Il give
him five minutes before We tre, no more
Tell him If he bats his eyes at me again,
III Just choke h1m to death 1or luck
q cropping out Of the old Anglo-SaXon con
fidence IN good bare hands against an armed
brute.
out sprang Changro with the message, and
up jumped the doctor on the wall, watch IN
hand, prepared to time the making OF his
message good.
Changro stopped halfway and shouted his
message, and then returned to Us. 1t was
plucky deed Of his; for none OF US expected
to shake his hand again.
Then opened a brief, heated paTley among
the Brults Judging by his angry gesuculd-
mons. the chief, bursting with resentment,
wanted to charge. The rest OF the band, most
Of them at least, seemed to be opposing 1t.
Apparently seven or eight minutes contem-
plation OF the mouths Of our one hundred
miles left the Brules little stomach to wait 10
hear them speak.
Hold them the old chief could not, and they
turned and rode of south, up White Clay,
toward Sun Dance Flat
A Curious Thirst
AND then ] awakened TO a curious fact !
~ wish some clever phy~iologIst would
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