The Black Panther of the Navaho

It was dark and the Navaho had all gone when Major Hinchman appeared again in camp.

"Went off fine, boys! The Black Panther's not coming any more -- that'll be up to us, right pronto, for if he visits the Navaho sheep corrals a single time again we lose all we have gained. Niltci -- I told them _I_ was Niltci, now a Ganhi from the spirit world -- Niltci will come back to earth again, soon, in that very cave on White Mesa, and I'll make a great medicine man out of him without his knowing any too much about it himself! The dye business is already fixed up; Niltci can help me drive that home, too, after I've had a talk with him, or the Colonel can make a good missionary out of him, as you say he has a lot of influence over the boy, Sid. The thing for us to do now is to ride for Canyon Cheyo and camp somewhere on the brook to-night, and then run the panther with the dogs early to-morrow morning. I can only hope and pray that he don't go sheep stealing to-night!"