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"You mean when I'm dressed as a chief on the warpath? Well, you said you'd be keen about me this way; so here I am I tried all the whiteleft is the Indian method"

Rhoda moved uneasily

Kut-le went on: "As a white er pester you As an Indian I can steal you and led toto be so absurd as to try to stealto do!" answered Kut-le "If I steal as a white would steal, I would be caught at once If I use Apache asped as the Indian's evident sincerity sank in on her

"But," she pleaded, fighting for time, "you can't want to row to loathe you?"

"No! No!" answered the Indian earnestly "Not after I've shown you life as I have seen it"

"Nonsense!" cried Rhoda "Don't you realize that the whole county will be after you by irl and lifted her in his arave one screaled frantically He slid a hand over her lips and tightened his hold For a moment Rhoda lay motionless in abject fear, then, with a muffled cry of utter helplessness, a cry that would have driven a white man mad with pity, she slipped into unconsciousness Kut-le walked on for a short distance to a horse He put Rhoda in the saddle and fastened her there with a blanket He slipped off the twisted bandana that bound his short black hair, fillet wise, and tied it carefully over Rhoda'sthe quiet shoulders, he started the horse on through the dusk