Presently, bethinking himself, he turned to the Indian.

"I've been debating," he said.
"Eye-of-the-Moon, my wife is in England, at my father's home.

I am going to her.

Men have lied in thinking I would do her any injury, but--but--never mind, the harm was of another kind.

It isn't wise for a white man and an Indian to marry, but when they are married--well, they must live as man and wife should live, and, as I said, I am going to my wife." To say all this to a common Indian, whose only property was a dozen ponies and a couple of tepees, required something very like moral courage; but then Armour had not been exercising moral courage during the last year or so, and its exercise was profitable to him.