"What would he give for life and freedom?"
"Any thing."
"Then let him tell how he got clear from the many thongs that were knotted around him."
"Remove the stones and I will show you."
"Is the Medicine a fool?"
"It is the only way I can explain, so that you will understand."
"The tongue of the pale-face is used to traveling a crooked trail, but the snows of many winters have fallen upon the head of the Medicine of the Sioux, and brought wisdom," and then, as a further temptation to the revelation, he continued: "Would he not learn of the squaw whose skin is like the blossom of the prairie rose?"
"I would be willing to die, if I could but know that she had escaped from the power of that black-hearted ruffian."
"If I will tell, will you reveal the secrets by which you make yourself great among your people?"
"Yes, any thing that is in my power."