This ediot offishul reaches for the relative of Cochise; an' as the latter--bein' a savage an' tharfore plumb afraid of captivity--leaps back'ard like he's met up with a rattlesnake, the marshal puts his gun on him an' plugs him so good that he cashes in right thar.

The marshal says later in explanation of his game that Cochise's brother turns hostile an' drops his hand on his knife.

Most likely he does; a gent's hands--even a Apache's--has done got to be some'ers.
"'But the killin' overturns the peaceful programmes built up between the Grey Fox an' Cochise.

When the old chief hears of his brother bein' downed, he paints himse'f black an' red an' sends a bundle of arrows tied with a rattlesnake skin to the Grey Fox with a message to count his people an' look out for himse'f.

The Grey Fox, who realises that the day of peace has ended an' the sun gone down to rise on a mornin' of trouble, fills the rattlesnake skin with cartridges an' sends 'em back with a word to Cochise to turn himse'f loose.