"Thanks, chief. I do not refuse your offer: perhaps I shall soon need the help of all my friends. And now, what do you purpose doing?"
"Since the palefaces reject him, Eagle-wing will retire to the desert. He has friends among the Comanches. They are redskins, and will welcome him gladly."
"I will not strive to combat your determination, chief, for it is just; and if, at a later date, you take terrible reprisals on the white men, they will have no cause of complaint, for they have brought it on themselves. When does my brother start?"
"At sunset."
"Rest here today: tomorrow will be soon enough to set out."
"Mookapec must depart this day."
"Act as you think proper. Have you a horse?"
"No; but at the first manada I come to I will lasso one."
"I do not wish you to set out thus, but will give you a horse."
"Thanks; my father is good. The Indian chief will remember—"