Captain Graham shouted, "Follow me, boys!" and follow him we did, but in the darkness the Indians made good their escape.

The bugle sounded the recall, but some of the darkies did not get back to camp until the next morning, having, in their fright, allowed the horses to run wherever it suited them to go.
We followed the trail awhile the next day, but it became evident that it would be a long chase, and as we were short of rations we started back to camp.

Captain Graham was bitterly disappointed at being cheated out of a fight that seemed at hand.

He roundly cursed the darky who bad given, the warning with his gun.

That gentleman, as a punishment, was compelled to walk all the way back to Fort Hays.
The western end of the Kansas Pacific was at this time in the heart of the buffalo country.