St.Luc paused, as if for an answer, but none coming he continued: "Shadows gather over the great nations beyond the seas.

The French king and the English king begin to look upon each other with hostile eyes." Tayoga was silent.
"But Onontio, who stands in the French king's place at Quebec, is the friend of the Hodenosaunee.

The French and the great Six Nations are friends." "There was Frontenac," said Tayoga quietly.
"It was long ago." "He came among us when the Six Nations were the Five, burned our houses and slew our warriors! Our old men have told how they heard it from their fathers.

We did not have guns then, and our bows and arrows were not a match for the muskets of the French.

But we have muskets and rifles now, plenty of them, the best that are made." Tayoga's eyes were still veiled, and his face was without expression, but his words were full of meaning.