"Many."
"Will he tell them to his red brother?"
"They are the gift of the great Manitou, the same as in life."
"The life of the pale-face is in the hands of the Medicine of the Sioux. One word from his lips, and death would follow—another and the path would be open for him to return to his people. Which shall it be? What would the pale-face give for freedom?"
"Very much."
"Will he teach the wonders that were whispered to him by the lips of the departed and the unseen voices of the winds?"
"What he may he will tell."
"It is well. The ears of the red-man are open. He will drink in the words as the dry ground the warm spring rains. Let the fetters be taken from his tongue."
"First he must go and bring the skull of one who has long slumbered in death. It is the only means by which the secrets of the grave and the other world can be told."
"My brother, for he shall be as a brother to me, will wait?"