"Do so; I trust entirely to you."
"You will have no reason to repent it," Natah Otann replied, graciously.
While the chief went to join his companions, the Count walked up to the two white men.
"Well?" Bright-eye asked him, "have you obtained what you wanted from that man?"
"Perfectly," he answered; "I only wished to say a few words to him."
The hunter looked at him cunningly.
"I did not think him so easy," he said.
"Why so, my friend?"
"His reputation is great in the desert; I have known him for a very long period."
"Ah!" the young man said, not at all sorry to obtain some information about the man who perplexed him so greatly; "what reputation has he then?"