The thing was getting too expensive." "Well, I'm glad I'm out of it," said Rectus.

"And I don't believe much in any of those Indians being very innocent.

I thought Maiden's Heart was one of the best of them, but he's a regular rascal.

He knew we wanted to back out of that affair, and he just fleeced us." "I believe he would rather have had our scalps than our money, if he had had us out in his country," I said.
"That's so," said Rectus.

"A funny kind of a maiden's heart he's got." We were both out of conceit with the noble red man.