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.This sometimes renders his strategies somewhatinflexable.The tactical situation, in my opinion, called for anassult onfoot.But the Yellow Knife would not be likely to think in such terms, atleast not immediately.He, like most page 407~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~of the red savages, seemed to be a born cavalryman.They would learn, swiftlyenought, of course, that the trail, here and there, abruptly narrowed.Indeed, in places, usually about blind turns, we had artificially narrowed it.Page 262 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html"You are finished now, Kaiila sleen!" cried Iwoso."Are you proud of yourself, and of your role in this?" asked Hci."Yes," she cried."Yes!""Interesting," said Hci."Now you will all be killed!" cried Iwoso."Now even your women and childrenwill be killed!""There is not one woman or child in this camp," said Hci."What?" she asked."No," said Hci."All the lodges!" she cried."There are mostly empty," said Hci."The women and children are elswhere, andsafe.""I do not understand," said Iwoso."This is a camp of warriors," said Hci."But the council!" cried Iwoso."There was never a council," said Hci."But what are you doing here?" asked Iwoso."Waiting for Yellow Knives," said Hci."We have had them under serveillance for four days," said Cuwignaka."I do not understand!" said Iwoso."You have played your role well," said Hci."My role?" she asked."Yes," said Hci, "Your part in our plans.""I do not understand," she said."You have been manipulated," said Cuwignaka."You ahve been tricked.""Without understanding it," said Hci, "you have been as obedient and compliantas a slave.""No!" she cried."Check her bonds," said Hci.I did so."She is well tied, and absolutely helpless," I said.page 408~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~"I do not believe you!" she cried to Hci.We heard the scream of a kaiila some two hundred feet below.Two kaiila, withtheir riders, slipping and scrambling, slid from the trail and then,unsupported, failing, turning in the air, the riders and thier mountsseparating, they fell a hundred feet, struck some rocks, bounded out from theescarpment and feel the final two undred feet to the lower, sloping face ofCouncil Rock, and then, a moment later, struck the prairie below."I do not believe you!" cried Iwoso to Hci."It cannot be!""Check the bonds of her slave," said Hci."You are a liar!" screamed Iwoso."Why else do you think that you and your miserable slave have been broughtforth and roped so prominently to these posts at the edge of the escarpment?That you may, as it amuses us, see what you have brought about!""No!" cried Iwoso."But your presence here serves another purpose, as well," said Hci."It is tobe expected that the Yellow Knives, seeing you, a high lady of their tribe,tied naked, as a slave, with a slave, will be incensed, that they will beoutraged at this insult, that they will fight even more desperately,frenziedly and irrationally to free you, and thus, concomitantly, will be moresusceptible to eerrors in judgment and tactics.Too, later, when they come torealize how they must have been tricked, how you brought them into this trap,perhaps they will see fit to riddle your pretty body, and that of your slave,with arrows."Iwoso regarded Hci with horror."Oh!" cried Bloketu."This one, too, is now well secured," I said.Page 263 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlWe heard the scream of another kaiila and saw it, and its rider, plungingdownward."Neighter of you," said Hci, regarding the two women, "roped as you are, willmake difficult targets.""Please untie me," begged Iwoso."Please untie me, Cuwignaka!" begged Bloketu.Cuwignaka, in fury, went to Bloketu and slapped her head, back and forth, inthe neck bonds.She regarded him startled, blood at her mouth."How do you dare, without permission, to so put the name of a free man on yourslave lips?" asked Cuwignaka.Bloketu looked at Cuwignaka, startled, disbelievingly.He was now a man whohad punished her."I am sorry," she whispered.page 409~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~His eyes were fierce.I think she scarcey understood that it could beCuwignaka."--Master," she added.On the trail below, only some twenty feet or so below the ledge, chargingupward, Yellow Knives, four or five abreast, mounted on painted kaiila, swepttoward the top of the trail, some hundred feet or so to our right
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