"Why have you been fighting us?" asked the Professor.
"My people thought you were trying to kill us."
"Why do you come to see us now?"
"Because my chief has been deserted by the Illyas and the Tuolos."
"Does he wish to surrender?"
"Yes; if the White Chief will not punish him and his people."
"Have any of your warriors gone with the two tribes?"
"No."
"You may tell your chief that we do not want war, but peace and friendship, and that we will not injure him or his people and that if we desired bloodshed we would have killed the warriors we took three days ago, and also would have destroyed your villages and taken your women and children captive."
The messenger was conducted to the front, and within two hours he returned with the message that the terms were accepted.