the medicine tepee
of the white man is great as the high rock. It has many beds, more than
the number of all Yamanatz's ponies. The young man who makes the gun,
the maiden who makes the pretty cap mebbe so breaks the leg. Mebbe so
the big steam cars come together all in big smash--kill many, heap hurt
all. Then taken 'em to white man's medicine tepee. Medicine man tie up
head, arms, legs, and white maiden in medicine clothes, all clean dress,
white cap, red cross on the arm, give sick man medicine, wash sick man's
hands, feet; give little something to eat, sit beside 'em, feel of hot
head; stay all day, stay all night; watch 'em little blood knocks on the
wrist, count all same on little watch. Mebbe so one get well, go way,
good-bye. Mebbe so some die, go way too. Some more come bad hurt. Mebbe
so like mountain fever; mebbe so heap sick inside. Big medicine man
takes little knife, cut 'em all open, so. Cut out big chunk, mebbe so
little chunk, all same; sew 'em up again, so, sabe? White maiden stand
by, help big medicine man. 'Nother medicine man stand by give 'em heap
strong stuff on cloth, sabe? Sick man all same breathe 'em in, byme by
go sleep; no feel 'em knife. Big medicine man heap cut. Sick man no feel
all same. Byme by wake up. Heap sick now long time; mebbe get all well;
mebbe so one moon, mebbe so two moons; mebbe so die. All same pale face
maiden heap brave; save many white man like Jack."

Chiquita never took her eyes from Jack's countenance. That she fully
understood every phase of the hospital life as portrayed by him was
evident from the dilated nostril, the wide-open eyes and the tumultuous
heaving of the bosom through the heavy folds of her buckskin. She waited
a full two minutes after Jack had finished, and then in a voice just
above a whisper asked: "Will the white man Jack take Chiquita to see the
medicine tepee of the white people that she may see the fair white
sister in her medicine clothes?"

Jack little realized that he had touched the one chord in Chiquita's
character that she yearned to follow. The imaginings of her young life
had met with no sympathetic response. She revolted at the cruelty often
displayed by the warriors in the Indian village, and the atrocities
committed on captives while she was but a child were hideous
recollections.

Jack quickly replied: "When Jack comes back to go with Yamanatz to
Blazing-Eye-by-Big-Water then Chiquita will see big medicine tepee in
Denver City an