Go home now , like a good girl . '' `` I 'm not going home , '' said Kate . `` I 'm not a ` good girl ' -- I 'm a wicked old maid , and I 'm going to Bothwell . If you wo n't lend us a tent we 'll go without -- and sleep in the open -- and our deaths will lie forever at your door . I 'll come back and haunt you , if you do n't lend me a tent . I 'll camp on your very threshold and you wo n't be able to go out of your door without falling over my spook . '' `` I 've more fear of being accountable for your death if I do let you go , '' said Sergeant Baker dubiously . `` However , I see that nothing but physical force will prevent you . What do you want ? '' `` I want , '' said Kate , `` a cavalry tent , a sheet-iron camp stove , and a good Indian guide -- old Peter Crow for choice . He 's such a respectable-looking old fellow , and his wife often works for us . '' The sergeant gave us the tent and stove , and sent a man down to the Reserve for Peter Crow . Moreover , he vindicated his title of friend by making us take a dozen prairie chickens and a large ham -- besides any quantity of advice . We did n't want the advice but we hugely welcomed the ham . Presently our guide appeared -- quite a spruce old Indian , as Indians go . I had never been able to shake off my childhood conviction that an Indian was a fearsome creature , hopelessly addicted to scalping knives and tomahawks , and I secretly felt quite horrified at the idea of two defenceless females starting out on a lonely prairie trail with an Indian for guide . Even old Peter Crow 's meek appearance did not quite reassure me ; but I kept my qualms to myself , for I knew Kate would only laugh at me . It was ten when we finally got away from the M.P. outpost . Sergeant Baker bade us goodbye in a tone which seemed to intimate that he never expected to see either of us again . What with his dismal predictions and my secret horror of Indians , I was beginning to feel anything but jubilant over our expedition .
Kate , however , was XXXXX blithe and buoyant as usual .
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