It was too late for him to fly.
"There was an unopened keg of liquor in the teepee.

The soldiers struck it to pieces, and the fire water covered the ground.
"The hands of White Deer were bound with an iron chain; he threw from him his clothes and his blanket.

He was a prisoner, and needed not the clothing of a Dahcotah, born free.
"The grey morning dawned as they entered the large door of the fort.

His old father soon followed him; he offered to stay, himself, as a prisoner, if his young son could be set free.
"It is in vain, then, that we would contend with the white man; they keep a watch over all our actions.

They _work in the night_." "The long knives will ever triumph, when the medicine men of our nation speak as you do," said Two Stars.