"Wah!" Flying Eagle said. "Take care; the ambition of those men may, if you do not pay attention, bring great misfortunes on your heads."
"I know it; but can I prevent it? Am I, alone, strong enough to combat their influence, and cause the propositions to be rejected which they impose on the council?"
"That is true," the Comanche answered, thoughtfully; "but how to prevent it?"
"There would be a way, perhaps," Atoyac said, in an insinuating voice, after a short silence.
"What?"
"It is very simple. Flying Eagle is one of the first and most renowned Sachems of his nation."
"Well?"
"As such, he has a right, I believe, to sit in the council?"
"He has."
"Why does not he go there, then?"