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For the moment after James Morris made the announcement that he might kill the Indian discovered by Henry in the bundle of skins, there was silence on the part of the Indian chief outside the palisade of the trading-post.
"My white brother is hard-hearted," said Rain Cloud at last. "Why must there be trouble between us?"