White Bear ignored the question. "Three of us came to you under a white flag to talk peace, and you shot us."
"It was wrong."
"You say that now, when I hold a knife on you. Why didn't you speak up then?"
"Colonel de Marion is my commanding officer. Kill me, damn you. Is it not your duty?"
"A warrior does as he pleases with his captives."
White Bear heard all around him, on the prairie and in the woods, the war cries and whistle signals of the Sauk braves. It would not be long before someone discovered White Bear crouched on top of this man, holding a knife point to his throat.
Wegner said, "If I could, I would kill you."
"Yet if you had caught me the night my uncle offered fifty Spanish dollars for my death, you would have let me go."
"How do you know that?"
It amused him to answer Wegner's question by saying, "I am a shaman—a medicine man. We know things."