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`` Major Webb is following the trail of Captain Ray , '' said he . `` You follow the major 's . You ca n't miss him , and there are no more Indians now to interpose . You should catch him by noon -- then give him this . '' `` This '' was a copy of a late despatch just in from Laramie , saying that the revolt had reached the Sioux at the agencies and reservations on the White Earth , and would demand the attention of every man at the post . No reinforcement , therefore , could be looked for from that quarter until the general came . It was no surprise to Dade .