She has been bred at home, mannered and schooled.

She knows the cote, I tell you, and not the bush, where the wild hawk hangs mewing in the sky.

Why has she fled to the wilderness alone ?" The Indian said cunningly: "Why has my brother Loskiel abandoned roof and fire for a bed on the forest moss ?" "A man must do battle for his own people, Sagamore." "A white maid may do what pleases her, too, for aught I know," he said indifferently.
"Why does it please her to roam abroad alone ?" "How should I know ?" "You do know!" "Loskiel," he said, "if I know why, perhaps I know of other matters, too.

Ask me some day--before they send you into battle." "What matters do you know of ?" "Ask me no more, Loskiel--until your conch-horns blowing in the forest summon Morgan's men to battle.

Then ask; and a Sagamore will answer--a Siwanois Mohican--of the magic clan.