I tried it once and got half way--" "And was scalped all the way back, I suppose." "I was, John.

Try it yourself." "I did, a month after I came." "Oh! and you never told me." "No, why should I ?" It had not had for him the quality of bodily peril.

It was somehow far less alarming.

He had started with fear, but was of no mind to confess.
They rode on in silence, until at last she said.

"I hope you won't fight that boy again." "Oh," he said, "I didn't mind it so very much." She was hinting that he would again be beaten.