"In fact I cannot understand how they got at the thing so quickly." "Didn't you hear him call ?" said Cameron.

"It was his call that did it.
Something he said turned them into devils.

They were bound to do for me.
I never saw Indians act like that." "Yes, I heard that call, and it mighty near did the trick for you.

Thank Heaven your thick Hielan' skull saved you." "How did they let him go ?" again groaned Cameron.
"How?
Because he was too swift for us," said the Superintendent, who had come in, "and we too slow.

I thought it was an ordinary Indian row, you see, but I might have known that you would not have gone in in that style without good reason.