If he casts in his lot with the Children of the West Wind a wigwam shall be his, and a daughter of our race to wife, and six of our young men shall follow his commands.

Will my brother march with us against those whom God has delivered to us for our prey ?" "Does the eagle make terms with the kite ?" I asked, "and fly with them to raid his own eyrie?
Yes, I will join with you, and march with you till I have delivered you to, perhaps, a score of the warriors of my own people.

Then I will aid them in making carrion of you." Heaven knows what wrought on me to speak like this, I, a poor, broken fellow, face to face with a hundred men-at-arms.

I think my mind had forsaken me altogether, and I spoke like a drunken man with a tongue not my own.

I had only the one idea in my foolish head--to be true to Ringan, and to meet the death of which I was assured with an unflinching face.