Now that sizes the whole thing up.

I ain't got anything against you nor against him, but I'm a settler; that's my constitution; and now I'm settled I'm going to stay." While the Indians discussed his words between themselves he made a bed of blankets on the floor and said: "I never turn anybody out.

A white man is just as good as an Indian as long as he behaves himself as well.
You can bunk here." The Indians didn't understand his words fully, but they did understand his gesture, and they smiled and accepted the courtesy, so like their own rude hospitality.

Then they all smoked a pipe of tobacco in silence, and at last Wilson turned in and went serenely off to sleep, hearing the mutter of the Indians lying before the fire.
In the morning he gave them as good a breakfast as he had--bacon and potatoes, with coffee and crackers.

Then he shook hands, saying: "Come again.