Where could I have seen a Siwanois?
Where ?" But he only shook his head.
Boyd and Mount had pricked forward; I still lingered by the Mohican.
And presently I said: "That was a brave little maid who bore our message to you." He made no answer.
"I have been wondering," I continued carelessly, "whether she has no friends--so poor she seems--so sad and friendless, Have you any knowledge of her ?" The Indian glanced at me warily, "My brother Loskiel should ask these questions of the maid herself." "But I shall never see her again, Sagamore.

How can I ask her, then ?" The Indian remained silent.

And, perhaps because I vaguely entertained some future hope of loosening his tongue in her regard, I now said nothing more concerning her, deeming that best.

But I was still thinking of her as I rode northward through the deepening dusk.
A great weariness possessed me, no doubt fatigue from the day's excitement and anxiety.

Also, for some hours, that curious battle-hunger had been gnawing at my belly so that I had liked to starve there in my saddle ere Boyd gave the signal to off-saddle for the night..