"It is true, I admit it."
"Ah! You admit it—very well; but you have probably had some design in acting thus?"
"I have always a design, Gueyma; do you not know that?"
"I know it, indeed, for your wisdom is great; but I should like to know this design."
"It is not yet time, my friend."
"That is always what you say. However, our position becomes intolerable. What is to be done? What is to become of us?"
"Still to push on in advance."
"But to go where? To do what?"
"When the moment arrives I will instruct you."
"Come, I give up any further discussion with you, Cougar. It is playing with myself to try and oppose you when you have made up your mind. Only, as I shall afterwards have to render an account of my conduct to the great chiefs of my nation, if I escape safe and sound from the dangers which threaten us, and as; I do not wish to take upon myself the responsibility of the events which, no doubt, will soon transpire, I have a request to make."