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so perhaps the truth was with the rank and file.

The next day, true to their appointment, the Coweliskies came marching in and put themselves under the protection of the white Captain, and the women with one of those swift revulsions of feeling that follow so fast after heedless adion, were profuse in their apologies and wanted to take back their flag; besides the woman who had lent the petticoat wanted it back for personal reasons, for petticoats were short in more ways than one in those days, but no, the members of the company were obdurate. The petticoat had been given to them and their flag it would remain.

The Coweliskies made no more trouble. The Indian war rolled Eastward back from the gates of the Cascades. The settlers went home