“By what path did you come?”

“By no path. I left Otsego as you left, crossed the river where you had crossed, recrossed where you did not recross, but where a canoe had landed.”

“And then?”

“I saw the Mengwe,” he said politely, as the Sagamore came up beside him.

Mayaro smiled his appreciation of the Algonquin term, then he spat, saying:

“The Mengwe were Sinako and Mowawak. One has joined the Eel Clan.”

“The Red Wings saw him. The Cat-People of the Sinako sat in a circle around that scalpless thing and sang like catamounts over their dead!”

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