Domingo uttered a cry of pain so horrible that the hearers started with terror, and rolled senseless on the ground.[1]
Flying Eagle contemptuously kicked the bandit's body aside, and turned to his companions. "Let us go," he said.
They followed him in silence, terrified by the scene of which they had been witnesses. An hour later, they found Brighteye at the bivouac.
At sunrise, Flying Eagle approached Marksman and gently touched him on the shoulder. "What do you want?" the hunter asked, as he woke.
"The Sachem is going to meet Eglantine," the Chief answered, simply. And he went away.
"There is something human in those savage fellows after all," the hunter muttered, as he watched him depart.
[1] The author saw this punishment inflicted on a North American by an Apache.