"Soon I must go back," he said.
Davis turned his head to stare at him. "Go back? In the name of the great Jehovah, what for?"
It was Auguste's turn to be surprised. It seemed so obvious that he had to return to Victor and face Raoul.
"I belong in Victor as much as I belong with the Sauk."
He could not, he decided, turn his back on Victor a second time.
"Why are we going east?" he asked.
"You've have been found not guilty in Victor, but you're still a prisoner of war, Auguste. Your future is in the hands of the President of the United States."
Auguste remembered now. General Winfield Scott at the hearing at Fort Crawford had said, If the people of Smith County don't hang you, I think President Jackson would find a meeting with you most interesting.
A chill spread across his back at the thought of meeting Andrew Jackson himself. What would he and Sharp Knife have to say to each other?