For a moment he and Captain Wells looked sternly into each other's eyes without speaking.

Then the savage broke silence.
"Wau-mee-nuk great brave," he said, sullenly, in broken English, using Wells's Indian name, "but him big fool come here now.

Why not stay with Big Turtle?
He tell him Pottawattomie not want him here." "Big Turtle did tell me," was the quiet answer, "that the Pottawattomies had made bad medicine and were dancing the war-dance in their villages; but I have met Pottawattomies before, and am not afraid.

They have been my friends, and I have done them no wrong." He looked intently at the disguised face before him, seeking to trace the features.

"You are Topenebe," he said at last.
"True," returned the chief, with proud gravity.