"Yes. That's what I'm thinking of."
"Can't say about that, my boy. Probably not. I don't believe it comes out on the western slope of the mountains."
"What do you want to try it for, then?"
"I don't exactly know. Game, perhaps. Then I want to teach you something more about mountains and finding your way among them. More than that, I don't want to go the same way with any of the rest."
"I like that, anyhow. Seems as if I had ever so many questions to ask that I never felt like asking before."
"I never cared to answer any, Steve, when you did ask 'em. Not so long as you and I were to be together. Now you're going away from me, pretty soon, I don't mind telling some things."
"Going away? Do you mean to say you won't go too? Shall you stay and be a Lipan?"
"You'll go alone, Steve, when you go. That's all."
"Why won't you go with me?"
"That's one of the questions I don't mean to answer. You've told me all about your family and people. I'll know where to look for you if I ever come out into the settlements."