Tom Six-killer comes plenty clost to sacrificin' himse'f utter.
"This last I knows, for the next day I sees the medicine men givin' some sufferer one of their aboriginal steam baths.

They're on the bank of Bird River.

They've bent down three or four small saplin's for the framework of a tent like, an' thar's piled on 'em blankets an' robes a foot deep so she's plumb airtight.

Thar's a fire goin' an' they're heatin' rocks, same as Colonel Sterett tells about when they baptises his grandfather into the church.

When the rocks is red-hot they takes 'em, one by one, an' drops 'em into a bucket of water to make her steam.