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Oso gave me an unruffled look.

`` Old Knife's got the largest war party ever seen on the river '', he said calmly.

`` What would you have done in Montero's moccasins??

Let Old Knife come up and kill you and your people, or would you steer him on someone else ''??

He shook his head.

`` Mr. Manuel did that in the war.

That's why the British never got the tribes to fight for the King.

Mr. Manuel whispered in the ears of the Sioux that the Cheyennes were comin' to raid 'em for their horses.

Then he went on to the Cheyennes and told them that the Sioux was goin' to move up.

He did that with all the Nations.

Hell, they were fightin' each other so hard they had no time for anyone else.

The War Department wrote Mr. Manuel a letter and said he was a hero.

I saw that letter.

He carried it in a little wallet made of fish skin ''.