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The couriers provide information to Moketubbe during the hunt for the servant.

In "Red Leaves" the character named Had-Two-Fathers appears only once, briefly, as one of the men who tell Moketubbe he should take off the red slippers. As both Had-Two-Fathers and, more frequently, Sam Fathers, however, a character with this name will play major roles in many of Faulkner's other fictions.

During his flight, the servant comes face to face with this Indian on "a footlog across a slough" (334). The Indian's appearance is explicitly contrasted with the servant's: the black man is "gaunt, lean, hard, tireless and desperate," the Indian is "thick, soft-looking, the apparent embodiment of the ultimate and the supreme reluctance and inertia" (334). He "makes no move" while the servant rushes away (334).

These are the "big boys" who are sent out with the men of the tribe to hunt down and capture the servant (334).