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I Wolf Brother's side was still painful, thong. Wolf Brother shot a rabbit
I under the snug bandage of buckskin and Prairie Rose broiled it for their sup-
that Prairie Rose had made for the per, over a tiny fire of dry wood that
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healing wound. The jogging of his pony did not smoke. Smoke might betray
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hurt —
but Wolf Brother did not care, their
darkness
little camp to enemy
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eyes. As
two rolled up in
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for his heart beat high with happiness. fell,

Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced
ot his promised bride.
daughter of an Arikora
Prairie Rose,
chief, rode her pinto with the ease of a
warrior. She was keeping the three
other captured Hidatsa ponies in line.
She had finished mourning for her
father, and other relatives, lately slain
by Sioux raiders. She had no one now,
but Wolf Brother —
the Pownee youth
who had rescued her from the Hidatsas.
Yet she was con ten?. It was she who
had insisted that they continue hunt-
ing until they hod located the great
buffalo herd. Then they would return
to Wolf Brother's people.
their buffalo robes, with their weapons.
They slept the light sleep of all wild
things who ore anve because they are
ever alert.
Sometime before midnight, a pony's
snort awakened Wolf Brother. Reach-
ing out, silently, he touched the buf-
falo robe of Prairie Rose. She stirred
and he knew that she had heard it, too.
As noiseless as a shadow, he strung his
bow, and siung his quiver.
"Wait here!" he told the girl and —
glided into the darkness.
Again he heard the snort of his Paw-
nee pony, and the nervous stepping of
its free hind feet. He rounded a clump

"We shall find them tomorrow, I of willows, crouching low, to bring ob-
think," the girl's voice spoke, just be- jects into relief against the lesser dark-
hind him. "I have a feeling, too, that ness of the sky. That showed them —
danger lies in our path." human figure bending in front of the
"We will turn toward the setting horse —to cut the hobbles!
sun, then," Wolf Brother replied. Wolf Brother's bowstring twanged.
"Sometimes the Great Herd swings A yell of pain answered. The horse
westward to fool the hunters." plunged. The smaller figure vanished.
They stopped near sunset beside a Then a flurry of hoofbeats and a de-
little, willow-bordered creeft. The five fiant whoop told of the thief's escape.
ponies were allowed to drink. Then they All the horses but one had gone!
were "hobbled," with anklets of tough Worse, their eomp had been spotted.
rawhide joined by a short, braided- With daylight, Sioux, Cheyenne, or
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Hidatsa raiders might be on their trail.
Wolf Brother and Prairie Rose
mounted their single horse, picked out
a star for direction, and started.
"Half o day's travel fram here,"
Wolf Brother told the girl, "rises a
small, rocky butte. It will hide us, and
provide a nigh lookout for both buf-
their baffled, howling foes. The girl's
bow twanged as often, and with as
deadly effect as did the boy's. At last
thft Sioux drew off, out of range.
"They will surround us," Wolf Broth-
er stoted calmly. "To leave us alive
now would blacken their faces. Sooner
or later their arrows will reach us. 'I

faloes and enemies. Sometimes one can could wish better things for you, Praifie
!"
find rainwater ccujght in deep hollows Rose
in the rock itself. We
should sight it by Bravely her eyes met his.
dawn." "I could wish for only one thing bet-
The dawn comer-first with a pale, ter than to die with you, Wolf Brother,"
tender light —then with a golden she soid, "and thot would be to live
flood. It snowed the rocky butte three
miles away. It also showed to Wolf
with you, always!
Great Spirit
— have asked the
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Brother's searching gaze a score of Sioux war whoops drowned out her
raiders, still tiny in the distance, on words. Sioux arrows clattered among
their back trail!
Wolf Brother thrust the pony's rein
the rocks where they stood. Then
ruptly — —
ab-
all was silent. All but a faint,
into his partner's hand, and leaped to far-off rumbling!
the ground. 1 hurt his side, but he gave
1 Quickly Wolf Brother stooped, laid
no sign of pain. his ear to the rock.
"Our horse is tired," he said. "If "Stampede!" he exclaimed, leaping
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run part way, he may live to reach the up. 'The Great Herd comes like the
butte. If he dies, we die too!" rush of flood water down a canyon! It
—
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Prairie Rose did not reply. But a mile
farther, when pain slowed her warrior's
pace, she jumped down —
and motion-
ed Wolf Brother onto the horse. Their
pursuers were closer now.
For the last mile they both rode.
Their pony died, pierced with Sioux
arrows, fifty yards from the rock. But
Wolf Brother and his partner reached
protection, unhit. They climbed, a few
yards at a time, pausing to shoot at
will flow around this rock it will
sweep over our enemies if they wait too
long ..."
But the Sioux war party had not
waited. They were out of sight before
the first brown waves of the Great Herd
washed the base of the butte. And on
its highest point two tiny figures, like
statues of bronze, lifted grateful arms
to heaven —Wolf Brother and his part-
ner, Prairie Rose!
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