"Eglantine needs no reward for serving her friends."
"I know it, Chief; but you will not refuse me the satisfaction of giving her this slight token of my gratitude, Chief?"
"My brother is at liberty to do so."
"Halloh!" Brighteye suddenly remarked, "by what chance did you come to our camp this night?"
"Have you not understood?"
"On my word, no. We were far from suspecting you to be so near us."
"That is true," Don Miguel remarked: "but now that I know where we are, all is explained."
"Yes; but that does not tell us why the Chief came to find us here."
"Because," Flying Eagle replied, "we discovered your footsteps crossing the trail we followed."
"That is true; and you came to reconnoitre."