He would far rather spend the remaining days of his life in the Indian village, than doom the maiden whose love had saved him.

Yet he thought he might succeed in getting away with her, and planned to that end.

His natural spirit, daring, reckless, had gained while he was associated with Wetzel.
Meanwhile he mingled freely with the Indians, and here, as elsewhere, his winning personality, combined with his athletic prowess, soon made him well liked.

He was even on friendly terms with Pipe.

The swarthy war chief liked Joe because, despite the animosity he had aroused in some former lovers of Whispering Winds, he actually played jokes on them.