We couldn't do anything that would save the rangers from defeat." The Onondaga looked up.

The others could not see his face, but it was reverential, and the cold rain that fell upon it had then no chill for him.

Instead it was soothing.
"Tododaho is on his great star beyond the clouds," he said, "and he is looking down on us.

We have done wrong or he and Areskoui would not have withdrawn their favor from us, but we have done it unknowingly, and, in time, they will forgive us.

As long as the Onondagas are true to him Tododaho will watch over them, although at times he may punish them." That Tododaho was protecting them even then was proved conclusively to Tayoga before the night was over.