CHAPTER XLIII.

Engaged as interpreter--Class of People at Green River--Appointed Deputy Sheriff--Drover Threatens to Kill Boatmen Arrest Ordered--Ride into the Outlaws' Camp--Bluffing the Captain--A Perilous Situation --Parley with Drovers--Compromise Effected--Dealing with Law-breakers--"Bill" Hickman as Sheriff Swimming Cattle Over Green River--A Drover's Failure--Writer Employed to get Cattle Over--How it is done Secret of Success--Arrival of Washakie--The Ferryman Offends him--The Angry Indian Swears Vengeance on the White Man--His Parting Threat--In Peril of an Indian Massacre.