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There was certainly personal magnetism about this man, for those who were to all outward seeming beaten beyond recall, turned at his slightest word and for a moment bore back the rushing tide of the trappers. But the Blackfeet, creeping from ledge to ledge, again reached a place from which they could rain destruction on the heads of their enemies, who were again forced to retire, but sullenly, contesting every foot of ground.
"That cursed Blackfoot has ruined us, Jim," groaned Rafe, looking up at the cliffs. "But for him they never could have broken through."
"The boys fought like devils, I tell ye," said Jim Diggs. "Oh, I forgot to tell ye thet 'Old Pegs' tried to leg it and we had to pop him over."
"Let him go," replied Rafe, quietly. "If it had been Dave Farrell I would have felt better, and yet the old man has done me wrong. Look out!"
A great rock hurled from the hand of Whirlwind, struck Jim Diggs on the head and brought him to the earth with a hollow groan, while a wild triumphant yell pealed up from the throat of Whirlwind as he noted the result of the throw. The last and most unscrupulous of the lieutenants of Rafe Norris had gone to his last home. Rafe shook his clenched hand at the Indians on the cliff, and ordered his men to fall back to the mouth of the pass which opened into the Spirit Spring Valley, resolved to hold it to the last.
The Modoc Sioux, greatly thinned by the battles of the last two weeks, sullenly took their stations behind the bowlders, ready to die in their tracks if need be. The whites looked over their cartridges, saw to it that every weapon was in order, and stood ready to obey the commands of their chief.
"I'd like to revenge myself on them, boys," hissed Rafe Norris. "If it did not look like deserting you, I have a way yet if it would suit you."
"Let's hear it, Cap," said Boston Jake. "We'll do any thing for you."
"I don't doubt it, Jake. Come with me and I'll tell you my plan."
The two stood in close conference for a moment and then Jake passed to and fro among the men, telling them what the captain meant to do and they agreed to it at once. Then leaving them to keep off the forces of Dave Farrell as long as possible, Norris stepped hastily to the side of Myrtle.
"Come, my darling," he said, mockingly. "It is time that we were on the way."
"I am not going anywhere with you," was the answer.
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