I'll hide my hurt with my pride--one o' th' only things my white brothers has left me.'" There was silence for a moment in the bunk house.

Then Jim Walker spoke.
"Well, Injun may think that," he said.

"But whatever he thinks you won't never really know.

He's that savin' o' speech, like all Injuns." "They're savin' enough o' speech here, 'mongst us folks," Bill Jordan said.

"But with their own people they're great speech-makers." "G'wan," objected Buck Higgins.