Captain Parker, who was a brave man, gave him to understand that he was reckoning beyond his powers.

Satanta finally left in anger.

Going to the sutler's store, he sold his ambulance to the post-trader, and a part of the proceeds he secretly invested in whisky, which could always be secured by the Indians from rascally men about a Post, notwithstanding the military and civil laws.
He then mounted his horse and rode rapidly to his village.

He returned in an hour with seven or eight hundred of his warriors, and it looked as if he intended to carry out his threat of capturing the fort.

The garrison at once turned out.