“Yes; I thank you.”
“You have no reason to thank me. If I had not known your wish I should still have acted nearly as I did. This cur was not worthy to suffer torture. You have seen to-day the difference between brave red warriors and cowardly white men. The pale-faces are all ready for any wickedness, but when there is question of showing courage they howl like dogs that see the whip.”
“The chief of the Apaches must remember that there are cowards and brave men everywhere, as there are good and bad ones.”
“You are right, and I will not wound you. But no nation should think itself better than another because it is not of the same color.”
CHAPTER XVIII.
TEACHING WINNETOU.
“And now there is but one thing left to do to finish the work begun in our meeting—a happy meeting in some ways, though so tragic in others,” I said to the chief as we walked slowly towards Winnetou, whom we saw approaching. “The Apache braves have only to bury Kleki-Petrah, and then all will be completed, will it not?”
“Yes.”
“May I be present with my comrades?”
“Certainly; I should have asked you had you not made the request. You talked with Kleki-Petrah on that miserable morning while we were gone for our horses; was it an ordinary conversation?”