When the patient recovers, it redounds to the honor of the doctor; if he die, they say "The time had come that he should die," or that the "medicine of the person who cast a spell upon the sick person was stronger than the doctor's." They can always find a satisfactory solution of the failure of the charm.] Within a few miles of Fort Snelling lives Checkered Cloud.

Not that she has any settled habitation; she is far too important a character for that.

Indeed she is not often two days in the same place.

Her wanderings are not, however, of any great extent, so that she can always be found when wanted.

But her wigwam is about seven miles from the fort, and she is never much farther off.