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It may be leaking under the wagon . '' To which the Sioux warrior said : `` Let us go now . '' The keg was found intact , and to obviate all risk , was brought to the Indian camp . Chamreau deferred opening it as long as he could , so that it was midnight before the `` Cowboy 's delight '' was handed round , and by three or four in the morning the camp was sunken in a deadly stupor . According to the plan , Chamreau was to take a brand from the lodge and , in the black night outside , make a vivid zigzag in the air a few times , when his plot was obviously a success . But he became so deeply interested in giving realism to his own share of the spree that he forgot about everything else , and the rest of the scheme was omitted , so far as he was concerned . But with the dim dawn there arrived in camp a couple of horsemen , one an Indian .