He had promised her flatly that he would do all in his power to keep the peace, and he had gone again to the Indian camp to see if Peppajee or some of his fellows could give him any information about Saunders.
Saunders had disappeared unaccountably, after a surreptitious conference with Baumberger the day before, and it was that which Miss Georgie had to tell him.

Saunders was in the habit of sleeping late, so that she did not know until noon that he was gone.

Pete was worried, and garrulously feared the worst.

The worst, according to Pete Hamilton, was sudden death of a hemorrhage.
Miss Georgie asserted unfeelingly that Saunders was more in danger of dying from sheer laziness than of consumption, and she even went so far as to hint cynically, that even his laziness was largely hypocritical.
"I don't believe there's a single honest thing about the fellow," she said to Good Indian.

"When he coughs, it sounds as if he just did it for effect.