"Brudder run faster dan Shawanoe."
"Did you run as fast as you could?"
"Yes—run hard—run like thunder—brudder much run—beat deer—beat antelope."
"Then I can beat you?" asked Wharton with a meaning look at the subtle miscreant, who nodded his head with great vigor as he made reply:
"Yes—beat Shawanoe—run faster—much more run."
If Blazing Arrow hoped by "acknowledging the corn" in this fashion to win the confidence of the youth he was mistaken. He could afford to own up when the only one that heard him was his conqueror. Little fear of his ever making the confession to his own people.
"That's the first truth you have told in a long time. What would you have done to me if you had outrun and captured me?"
"Take back to Shawanoes."
"And what then?"
"Run race wid me."