"My advice," she quickly interrupted, "is to be as pitiless to him as he has been to others."
"Good!"
The chief pointed to the American.
"Take him away," he said, "and let all the preparations be made for torture."
"Thanks," Nathan replied; "at any rate you will not make me languish, that is a consolation."
"Wait before you rejoice, till you have undergone the first trial," White Gazelle said ironically.
Nathan made no answer, but went away whistling with two warriors. They fastened him securely to the trunk of a tree, and left him alone, after assuring themselves that he could not move, and consequently flight was impossible. The young man watched them go off, and then fell on the ground, carelessly muttering—
"The disguise was good for all that; had it not been for that she-devil, I must have escaped."