"Do not calumniate your heart and courage," Louis replied, warmly pressing his hand; "you have; saved the life of a man."
"Aye; but I have killed another."
"Oh, he was a guilty wretch!"
[CHAPTER XXI.]
THE OBSEQUIES OF AN APO-ULMEN.
The emotion caused by the death of the machi gradually died away, and order was re-established. Curumilla and Trangoil-Lanec, abjuring any feeling of enmity, exchanged a fraternal embrace, amidst the frantic applause of the warriors, who loved both the chiefs.
"Now my father is avenged, we can restore his body to the earth," Curumilla observed. Then, advancing towards the strangers, he bowed to them, saying—
"Will the palefaces assist at the obsequies?"
"We will," Louis replied.