"Let me tell you, that fellow's a man, just the same; the gamest, nerviest man I ever saw.

I reckon he got hit, too, though he never said nothing about it.

That's his style." The deeply interested lieutenant removed his watchful eyes from off his charge just long enough to glance inquiringly across his shoulder.
"Has the man any signs of a wound, sergeant ?" he asked, loudly.
"A mighty ugly slug in the shoulder, sir; has bled scandalous, but I guess it 's the very luck that's goin' to save him; seems now to be comin' out all right." The officer's brows knitted savagely.

"It begins to look as if this might be some of our business.

What happened?
Indians ?" "Yes." "How far away ?" "I don't know.