It's bound to prove a hard campaign, to judge from all visible indications, and the trouble has been hatching long enough to get all the hostiles into a bunch.

I know most of them, and they are a bad lot of savages.

Crook's column, I have just heard, was overwhelmingly attacked on the Rosebud, and forced to fall back.

That leaves the Seventh to take the brunt of it, and there is going to be hell up north presently, or I 've forgotten all I ever knew about Indians.

Sitting Bull is the arch-devil for a plot, and he has found able assistants to lead the fighting.