"Wal, I'll be skulped!" added the other, as if he could not do justice to his feelings. "I never dreamed of anything like that."
"Like what?" asked George.
"Seeing that Shawanoe agin. Say, he's a great one, ain't he?"
"You know him, then?"
"Wal, I reckon. He done me the greatest favor of my life—greater than what I done that chap of yourn a little while ago."
"I don't see how that can be," remarked the limping Victor; "but Deerfoot is always doing good to others."
"Didn't he ever tell you anything about me?"
"You haven't told us your name."
"I'm Jack Halloway."
The boys agreed that they had never heard the Shawanoe mention him by name. Victor added: