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"[...]the death-cry and knew that one of their number had "gone under." "Ugh! Heap boy! Save hair!" was the hoarse-toned greeting given to his son by Castro three minutes later. "Comanche!" said Red Wolf, holding up his gory prize. "Great Bear come. Not many braves right away. Too many pretty soon. Heap run. Ugh!" Castro understood the situation well enough without much explanation, and his prospects did not seem to be very good. He and his braves were too few to win a pitched battle and too many for concealment. "Ugh!" he replied to Red Wolf. "Great chief no run. Die hard. Heap fight." The one thing in his favor was the first mistake made by Great Bear. It had kept him from being in person among the next half-dozen of the braves who had gone to the left, so very close upon the heels of Red Wolf. Even their wrath for the fate of their foremost man did but send them on the more recklessly to avenge him. They whooped savagely as they galloped past his body at the crossing of the paths. They still believed they had[...]".