The Bridge of the Gods

o warn them to be better, had a singular influence over them. There was none of his hearers who did not dimly feel that he ha

gering for blood, began to clamor again for the death of

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raded minds; but cruelty was deeply rooted within them, the vague shame and misgiv

ned to Sn

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nd the captive, who rose to his feet amid a low angry murmur from those around. Sno

nger, and that we let you go only to tell the tale. Tell them, too, that Snoqualmie knows his sister died by their hand last winter, and that

taking the trail across the pra

hat given with it that made it bitte

replied Snoqualmie. "But remember, my debt is paid. Ask

ooking man, a renegade from the Shoshones, who had taken no part in the torture, came forward to help him. Together they bore the corpse away from the camp to the hillside; toget

eady to take the Bannock trail. But before they left the camp, a runner entered it with a summons from Multnom

s "Native Races,"

e Columbia River" for a description