"Oh, if you would only kick me for a fool, father," he groaned.
"No need of it, for you learn a bitter lesson in feeling what you have done. I should have thought that you would have known better than to trust her in such hands," said the elder Bernard, who showed the deepest chagrin over the affair.
"The Sioux have always been so friendly, father."
"Oh, yes, and will be, I hope."
"And you have held such power over them."
"In time of peace, yes, but they are at war now, and the Indian is a study which no man has ever learned."
"You know, then."
"Yes, to-day; but what will they be to-morrow?"
"Well, I thought I was preventing her escape."