There is a saying-and if it is not purely Western, it is at least purely American-that the onlygood Indian is a dead Indian. In the very teeth of that, and in spite of the fact that he was neithervery good, nor an Indian-nor in any sense "dead"-men called Grant Imsen "Good Indian" to hisface; and if he resented the title, his resentment was never made manifest-perhaps because he hadgrown up with the name, he rather liked it when he was a little fellow, and with custom had come totake it as a matter of course.Because his ...
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There is a saying-and if it is not purely Western, it is at least purely American-that the onlygood Indian is a dead Indian. In the very teeth of that, and in spite of the fact that he was neithervery good, nor an Indian-nor in any sense "dead"-men called Grant Imsen "Good Indian" to hisface; and if he resented the title, his resentment was never made manifest-perhaps because he hadgrown up with the name, he rather liked it when he was a little fellow, and with custom had come totake it as a matter of course.Because his paternal ancestry went back, and back to no one knows where among the race of blueeyes and fair skin, the Indians repudiated relationship with him, and called him white man-thoughthey also spoke of him unthinkingly as "Good Injun."Because old Wolfbelly himself would grudgingly admit under pressure that the mother of Granthad been the half-caste daughter of Wolfbelly's sister, white men remembered the taint when theywere angry, and called him Injun. And because he stood thus between the two races of men, hisexact social status a subject always open to argument, not even the fact that he was looked upon bythe Harts as one of the family, with his own bed always ready for him in a corner of the big room setapart for the boys, and with a certain place at the table which was called his-not even his assuredposition there could keep him from sometimes feeling quite alone, and perhaps a trifle bitter overhis loneliness.Phoebe Hart had mothered him from the time when his father had sickened and died in herhouse, leaving Grant there with twelve years behind him, in his hands a dirty canvas bag of gold coinso heavy he could scarce lift it, which stood for the mining claim the old man had just sold, and thecommand to invest every one of the gold coins in schooling.Old John Imsen was steeped in knowledge of the open; nothing of the great outdoors had everslipped past him and remained mysterious. Put when he sold his last claim-others he had whichpromised little and so did not count-he had signed his name with an X. Another had written theword John before that X, and the word Imsen after; above, a word which he explained was "his,"and below the word "mark." John Imsen had stared down suspiciously at the words, and he had notfelt quite easy in his mind until the bag of gold coins was actually in his keeping. Also, he had beenashamed of that X. It was a simple thing to make with a pen, and yet he had only succeeded inmaking it look like two crooked sticks thrown down carelessly, one upon the other. His face hadgone darkly red with the shame of it, and he had stood scowling down at the paper.
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