She was out here onc't, three years ago, 'bout a week maybe.

Course she did n't know nothin' 'bout the squaw, an' the Injuns was all huntin' down in the Wichitas.

But as I wus sayin', Gene caught on to this yere Injun war last spring--I reckon ol' Koleta, his Injun father-in-law, likely told him what wus brewin'-- he's sorter a war-chief.

Anyhow he knew thet hell wus to pay, an' so we natch'ally gathered up our long-horns an' drove 'em east whar they would n't be raided.

We did n't git all the critters rounded up, as we wus in a hurry, an' they wus scattered some 'cause of a hard winter.