"What reply have you to this?"
"None."
"What does the people say?"
"We attest," the audience replied in one voice.
"I accuse this man of the same crimes," Don Pablo said.
"I accuse this man of having burnt the house of my father and mother, assassinated my parents, and handed me over to bandits to be brought up in crime," White Gazelle said.
"I," Bloodson added, "accuse him of the same crimes: this girl's father was my brother."
There was a start of horror on the audience. Valentine consulted with the judges in a low voice, then said—
"Red Cedar, you are unanimously found guilty and condemned to be scalped, and then hung."
Sutter was condemned to be hanged only; the judges had regard for his youth, and the evil examples he had constantly before him. The monk's turn had now arrived.