Deerfoot conferred with Hay-uta before answering.
"Four: they were large, strong and brave, and they wanted our brother; so he was sold, as the young man was sold by his brothers and taken into a far land, and afterward became the great chief of the country, and the friend of his brethren and aged father."
Astonished as was Jack Carleton to hear these tidings, he was more astonished to note that the young Shawanoe was comparing the experience of Otto Relstaub with that of the touching narrative told in the Old Testament of Joseph and his brethren.
CHAPTER II.
A VALUABLE ALLY.
"But who were the Indians?" asked Jack Carleton.
Deerfoot shook his head, smiled in his faint, shadowy way and pointed to the west.
"They came from the land of the setting sun; Hay-uta knows not their totem; he never saw any of their tribe before and knows not whither they went."
"I should, think that even an Indian would have enough curiosity to ask some questions."