Him see straight," Injun replied, with dignity.
Bill was sorry now that he had started on this line of attack.

He knew that the Min-i-ko-wo-ju tribe, a branch of the Sioux or Dakotas, of which Injun was a member, had been treated very fairly by Mr.Sherwood, Whitey's father.

That largely through the influence of Mr.Sherwood, aided and abetted by John Big Moose, the educated Dakota, the Min-i-ko-wo-jus had come in for their share of the recently discovered gold mine.

He also knew that gratitude was a strong factor in the Indian character.
But with all his boasted knowledge of his red brothers, what Bill did not know was what Injun was thinking of, and that was something unconnected with his white brothers, or their justice or injustice to his kind.

It was something induced by the stillness of the night, following the storm.