opinion of this Wyandotte?”

“Erie,” he said quietly.

“You believe it?”

“I know it, Loskiel.”

“And the others — the Oneidas and the Stockbridge?”

“They are as certain as I am.”

“Good God! Then why have you not told me this before, Mayaro?”

“Is there haste?”

“Haste? Have I not said that we march immediately? And you would have let me give my order and include that villain in it!”

“Why not? It is an easier and safer way to take a prisoner to Tioga Point than to drag him thither tied.”