Song Of The Warrior by Georgina Gentry

Author:Georgina Gentry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2014-07-09T16:00:00+00:00

Even Raven swaggered a little when the warriors gathered back in camp to assess the battle. In the ambush, the warriors had wiped out almost one-third of the troops and white volunteers and chased the survivors many miles while the whites fled like panicked rabbits. Five Wounds said that one of the dead men was young and wore a lieutenant’s insignia on his blue uniform. Now he would be forever young and sleep for eternity in the dirt of White Bird Canyon.

Bear drew a sigh of relief when he heard these words. He had seen the way Billy Warton had looked at Willow and Bear feared for her as long as Warton lived. With the young lieutenant dead, that was one less problem for Bear to worry about.

The Nez Perce had lost no men and only a couple had been wounded. In addition, Joseph’s men had captured a couple of treaty Nez Perce interpreters who promptly brought Joseph and Ollokot up to date on every move the soldiers had planned. Besides that, the braves had picked up many weapons and extra ammunition, both from the dead soldiers and those who fled back out of the canyon.

The most troubling thing to Bear was that he had seen the big scout called Tanner with that column. Had Tanner seen Willow? If he had, no doubt there would be a renewed effort to get her back.

Willow hurried to help around the camp. The women were trilling victory songs over the defeat that had been handed the soldiers. Willow was torn by her feelings. Even though she was glad the soldiers had been driven off, there were dead men out in that canyon and widows and orphans would be weeping tonight. Sorrow cared little if the women were white or brown. She knew one thing, though, now the Nez Perce would have to move again and soon, because the soldiers would return; and this time, they would bring more men and maybe cannons.

The others around her were too primitive to understand that, she realized, and so they could celebrate this victory, thinking with the bluecoats fleeing in defeat, that it was ended, rather than just beginning.

She saw Bear come out of the meeting lodge and ran to him. “Is there news?”

He nodded. “The captured treaty Nez Perce tell us the Reverend Harlow was found dead after you fled; the whites think our people murdered him and kidnapped you.”

“What? Why, that’s not true. I’ll tell them—”

“It doesn’t matter; you’ll never be able to get close enough to tell them, and they’d probably think you loco, force you to return to the whites.”

Willow put her face in her hands and tried to think. No doubt the old preacher had had a heart attack or fell and hit his head while he was chasing her through the house. She tried to feel sorry for his death, but he had been a cold, strange man, not a credit to his religion at all. And she had found out that he and his wife had cold-bloodedly stolen her from her mother.

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