An' ye lets that Injun go.

An' thet same Injun he mighty nigh kicked my ribs inter my stomach!" Oncle Jazon's feelings were visible and audible; but Clark could not resent the contempt of the old man's looks and words.

He felt that he deserved far more than he was receiving.

Nor was Oncle Jazon wrong.
Rene de Ronville never came back to little Adrienne Bourcier, although, being kept entirely ignorant of her lover's fate, she waited and dreamed and hoped throughout more than two years, after which there is no further record of her life.
Clark, Beverley and Oncle Jazon consulted together and agreed among themselves that they would hold profoundly secret the story of the scalp.

To have made it public would have exasperated the creoles and set them violently against Clark, a thing heavy with disaster for all his future plans.