“But there was no evidence!” cried Ryman. “Every

reason them out of the superstitious belief, defying the doctors to

kill me, or even make me ill; but my talks were unavailing, and they

always met my arguments with the remark that I was a white man, of a

race wholly different from the red man, and that that was the reason

the medicine of the doctors would not affect me. These villainous

doctors might be either men or women, and any one of them finding an

Indian ill, at once averred that his influence was the cause,

offering at the same time to cure the invalid for a fee, which