He shrank from doing so.
The Delaware beckoned to one of the Senecas, and they stepped aside and talked a few minutes, in tones too low for the listening Linna to hear what was said.

Subsequent events, however, made clear the meaning of their conversation.
Red Wolf proposed to spare the fugitives.

He wished to go away with his companions and leave them to pursue their flight without molestation, so far as they were concerned.
But the Senecas held Omas in less dread than did Red Wolf.

They were unwilling to let the whites escape.

The third warrior, who joined them, was as strenuous as the first.