Orme rode up laughing and unconcerned.

"The beggar wouldn't trade with me at all," he said.

"By Jove, I believe he'd have got me if he'd had any sort of tools for it." "You broke treaty!" ejaculated Belknap--"you broke the council word." "Did that man make the first break at you ?" Auberry blazed at him.
"How can I tell ?" answered Orme, coolly.

"It's well to be a trifle ahead in such matters." He seemed utterly unconcerned.

He could kill a man as lightly as a rabbit, and think no more about it.
Within the instant the entire party of the Sioux was in confusion.