Speak deep as from the heart, my brother, and tell me where my daughter is." Armour could not but respect the chief for the way this request was put, but still it galled him to think that he was under suspicion of having done any bodily injury to his wife, so he quietly persisted: "Do you think I have done Lali any harm ?" "The thing is strange," replied the other.

"You are of those who are great among your people.

You married a daughter of a red man.

Then she was yours for less than one moon, and you sent her far away, and you stayed.

Her father was as a dog in your sight.