The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-02
Escaped the Indians Trap
HOW NERVE AND CUNNING SAVED THE LIFE OF MAN SEEK.
ING REVENGE on REDSKINS.

low and watch for a chance to sur
prise the band on his scouts reports.
Mete and his comrade rode up hill
and down for a while without seeing a
redskin sign and then decided to sep
arate in order to better cover a GER
tain stretch of country. Mete got a
glimpse of camp fire smoke as soon as
nc climbed the next hill.
1t might he stockmen returning
from OWyhee. but there was a good
chance that it was Indians, and Mete
started for the smoke. His comradc
came into view just then on another
ridge across the valley and he noted
q circumstance that Mete had over.
looked. A dozen Indians We're skulk-
ing up a ravine ahead of Metc to am
bush him. 1t wouldn't be more than
a minute till they mixed. for Mete had
his horse on the gallop and he couldn't
see what he was going into.
The man on the other ridge took
another look and saw several more
Bannocks crawling along a gully to
cut Mete Oft from behind. They had
him sewed up then and the free scout
muttered a goodbye. wheeled his
horse and headed back to camp to
bring up h company.
Mete went on serenely enough into
a bunch Of tall y grass and there
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through the neighing Of an Indian
pony. The Bannocks were waiting
for him. but they had separated a
colt from it's mother. and the mares
anxiety for her offspring spoiled the
plan for an unresistcd slaughter. The
call somehow told Mete that 1t came
from no cattle pony.
Believing that the trap had closed
comfortably. the Indians began to
ChnV' fhaNnNolvac m tho NiADao 1,,<
OF range. but coming closer. Mete
saw a war bonnet every way he look
ed. His appetite for Indians seemed
about to be satisfied to the limit. The
Indian idea Of the situation was that
they would so maneuver as to leave
Mete there in the grass with none of
their wi band to keep them COM
pany.
In bringing that about they under.
estimated Mete's capabilities in a cor
ner. He realized that his hope lay
! n keeping clear Of their lead until the
company came up. and he quietly got
ready for that undertaking. not for.
getting his obligations to the women
for whom he had galloped so readily
into the trap.
AS he crouched in the grass. watch
ful and ready. he saw n of the war
riors begin to work ahead Of the line
kept by the others. In him Mete
recognized the warrior chosen to
crawl in and flush the game. That
appeared to be merely a simple d.
version and in the course Of killing
Mete. for they could easily see his
horses head above the grass.
They could not, however. see Mete
slide away from his horse to a dis.
lance Of probably 100 yards. And he
slid in the direction of hat creeping
Bannock. coming on with murder in
his mind.
Mete looked ut his watch as he
waited and noted that It was nearly
2 o'clock. HALEY must have put the
company on the way at 1880, since he
hadn't returned. It wouldn't be long
Row. way or the other. He turned
his eyes. ears and rife in the direction
Of the Indian he knew to be wOrminR
along somewhere toward him like a
snake.
Seventy-nvs Yards away tho grass
parted and the bare skin Of the Ban.
mock glistened IN the sun. He was
crawling. cooked gun in hand. toward
the horse. It lever occurred to him
that the proposed victim would aban-
don his only chance for escape in a
corner like that by leaving his horse.
Slowly the warriors form straight
ened up and his painted face lifted
higher in the quest for . glimpse Of
the white target. The action exposed
his left side to Mete with nothing more
than grass blades between.