Saga of the Sanpitch Vol 02

NEH-TIG-A-Gand

Walker sprang to the squaw and brought his whip down across her face and sholders with swift decisive strokes. Then he stood back and said, Squaw too-edg-katz-att. Oome-me pi-equay. Aup-ke. "Squaw very bad. You go. Now!" Walker strode out and mounted his horse. He sat there until he saw a stooped, wrinkled old woman come through the door. Then he swung his horse around and rode very delib- erately through the gates of the fort, a barefoot squaw in a long white lindsey nightgown, shuffling along behind him in the dust. She looked neither to the right or tha left, but Kept her eyes on the ground, knowing she must submit to whatever the future held for her. - 15 -