"Tayoga and I know a good home when we find it.

And we know friends, too, when we see them." It was a bit of sentiment, but he felt it very deeply and he saw that all of the men looked pleased.

As he and Tayoga went out he noticed that they drew their chairs about the dining-room table that Caterina had cleared, and before the door closed upon the two lads they were already talking in low and earnest tones.
"They have affairs of importance which are not for us," he said, when he and the Onondaga were outside.
"It is so," said Tayoga.

"The white people have their chiefs and sachems like the nations of the Hodenosaunee, and their ranks are filled by age.
The young warriors are for the trail, the hunt, and the war path, and not for the council.

It is right that it should be thus.