with the new-comers, whom he looked upon as the greatest lunk-heads
that he had ever encountered in all of his rather eventful experience.
He had never seen them before; but he did not care for that, as he had
the frankness of a frontiersman and never stood upon ceremony in the
slightest degree. 

"Did you ever hear tell of Lone Wolf?" he continued, as a group,
including nearly the entire population, gathered about the veteran of
the plains.  "I say, war any of you ever introduced to that American
gentleman?" 

He looked around, from face to face, but no one responded.  Whenever
he fixed his eye upon any individual, that one shook his head to
signify that he knew nothing of the Apache chief whose name he had
just mentioned. 

"What I meant to say," he continued, "is that any of you have got any
yearnin' toward Lone Wolf, feeling as if your heart would break if you
did n't get a chance to throw your arms about him, why, you need n't
feel bad, _'cause you'll get the chance_."