What answered Black Partridge ?" Heald made no response; and Wells wheeled impetuously to me.
"Come, lad, the truth,--what reply did Black Partridge make to this Indian mummery ?" "He said, 'I have already spoken to the White Chief in his own wigwam, and given back the medal of the Americans, and have nothing more to say.'" For a moment the old Indian soldier stared at me, his stern face fairly black with the cloud in his eyes.

He brought his clinched hand down hard against the log wall.
"By God! it is treachery!" he exclaimed fiercely, and turned and walked away..