"What do I mean is, that today the general, guided by me, went——"
"Ah! yes, I know all that. I saw you."
"Maldición! why did you not attack us, then?"
"There were but two of us."
"I should have made the third, the party would then have been equal; the general had but two lanceros."
"That's true; but I did not think of it."
"You were wrong. All would now be ended, instead of which all is now probably lost."
"How so?"
"Eh! caray! It is clear enough. The general and his niece held long conversations with that sneaking hound, Black Elk, and you know he has been acquainted with me a long while. There is no doubt he has made them suspicious of me."
"Why did you lead them to the beaver pond, then?"