[Good Indian by B. M. Bower]@TWC D-Link bookGood Indian CHAPTER XV 14/36
Yo' go.
Pikeway." He settled back with a gesture of finality, and so Good Indian left him. Old Hagar shrilled maledictions after him when he passed through the littered camp on his way back to where he had left his horse, but for once he was deaf to her upbraidings.
Indeed, he never heard her--or if he did, her clamor was to him as the yelping of the dogs which filled his ears, but did not enter his thoughts. The young squaw smiled at him shy-eyed as he went by her, and though his physical eyes saw her standing demurely there in the shade of her wikiup, ready to shrink coyly away from too bold a glance, the man-mind of him was blind and took no notice.
He neither heard the baffled screaming of vile epithets when old Hagar knew that her venom could not strike through the armor of his preoccupation, nor saw the hurt look creep into the soft eyes of the young squaw when his face did not turn toward her after the first inattentive glance. Good Indian was thinking how barren had been his talk with Peppajee, and was realizing keenly how much he had expected from the interview.
It is frequently by the depth of our disappointment only that we can rightly measure the height of our hope.
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