he Marquis and the
Marquis dined on occasion with Roosevelt; they discussed horsemanship
and hunting and books; at the meeting of the Montana Stockgrowers'
Association at Miles City in April, that year, the Marquis proposed
Roosevelt for membership; on the surface, in fact, they got along
together most amicably. But under the surface fires were burning.

On one occasion, when Roosevelt and the Marquis were both in the East,
Roosevelt sent a message to his sister "Bamie," with whom he was
living, telling her that he had invited the Marquis and his wife to
dinner that evening. The message that came back from "Bamie" was, in
substance, as follows: "By all means bring them. But please let me
know beforehand whether you and the Marquis are on friendly terms at
the moment or are likely to spring at each other's throat."

"Theodore did not care for the Marquis," said "Bamie" in later years,
"but he was sorry for his wife and was constantly helping the Marquis
out of the scrapes he was forever getting into with the other
cattlemen."

There were many reasons why the relations between the two men should
not have been noticeably cordial. Roosevelt had from the start thrown
in his lot with the men who had been most emphatic in their
denunciation of the Marquis's part in the killing of Riley Luffsey.
Gregor Lang, who was the Marquis's most caustic critic, was
Roosevelt's warm friend. "Dutch Wannigan," moreover, who had been
saved only by a miracle in the memorable ambuscade, was one of
Roosevelt's cow-hands. That summer of 1885 he was night-herder for the
Maltese Cross "outfit." He was a genial soul and Roosevelt liked him.
No doubt he was fascinated also by his remarkable memory, for
"Wannigan," who was unable to read or write, could be sent to town
with a verbal order for fifty items, and could be counted on not only
to bring every article he had been sent for, but to give an exact
accounting, item by item, of every penny he had spent. For the Marquis
the presence of "Dutch Wannigan" in Roosevelt's "outfit" was, no
doubt, convincing evidence of Roosevelt's own attitude in regard to
the memorable affray of June 26th, 1883. Whatever irritation he may
have felt toward Roosevelt because of it could scarcely have been
mollified by the fact that "Dutch Wannigan," in his quiet way, was
moving heaven and earth to bring about the indictment of the Marquis
for murder.

But there was another reason why the relations between the Marquis