Having no children of her own, she took for protégé a small White Mountain, son of a buck who hung about the post most of the time, bought him candy and peanuts at the sutler's store, taught him English, and gathered snatches of his tribe's tongue in return.
The civilian protested. "But there is a big company of us, sir, thirty or thirty-five, who can put you on the trail of a large band."[Pg 197]"drop that!" called the cow-boy.
