They expected to do it quiet like, hold the off'cer a day er so out in the desert, an' then turn him loose to howl.

But them plans did n't just exactly work.
The fellow's daughter was with him, when the pinch was made, an' they hed to take her 'long too.

Then the officer man got ugly, an' had to be shot, an' Le Fevre quarrelled with the other white man in the outfit, an' killed him.

That left the gal on their hands, an' them all in a hell of a fix if they wus ever caught.

The young Injuns wanted to kill the gal too, an' shet her mouth, but somehow Le Fevre an' Koleta would n't hear to it--said she 'd be worth more alive than dead, an' that they could hide her whar she 'd never be heard of ag'in unless her friends put up money to buy her back." Hamlin was leaning forward, watching the speaker intently, and it seemed to him his heart had stopped beating.