I'm in command here, and I'll shoot the first man who raises a hand.

Mr.Orme, take your place at the wagons.

Auberry, keep with me.

We'll have fighting enough without anything of this." "He murdered that Sioux, Lieutenant," reiterated Auberry.
"Damn it, sir, I know he did, but this is no time to argue about that.
Look there!" A long, ragged, parti-colored line, made up of the squaws and children of the party, was whipping up the sides of the rough bluffs on the left of the valley.

We heard wailing, the barking of dogs, the crying of children.