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Could this white-faced soldier read visions and dreams and thoughts ? Was he a medicine-man ? `` No got , '' he sullenly answered once more . `` You will leave these two with me for safe-keeping , '' said Davies , `` and go and fetch the others at once , even if you have to take them from Pulls Hard , and get back here with them at noon without fail . No , you need not appeal to the agent , or I 'll tell him that you loaded Bear with drugged liquor and marked cards and cogged dice . Off with you , Pete , '' he continued , and the half-breed rode away on his Cayuse pony with scared face , and told in the camp of Red Dog that the young chief Davies was a seer , a mind-reader as well as a brave who feared not to grapple their war chief ; and when he was gone , Bear-Rides-Double was summoned and bidden to ride double if he could , but to go and sin no more with cogged dice , and the Minneconjou looked with evident awe and wonderment upon the grave , reticent cavalryman , and went away homeward on one of the recovered ponies , his women-folk , laden with Mira 's discarded finery and leading the other , trudging contentedly along behind him afoot . `` You 'll be a heap bigger man among the Indians than the agent can ever hope to be , lieutenant , '' said Gaffney , with an Irish grin .