“You are modest in your great knowledge, Mr. Loskiel.”
“No, General, only, knowing as much as I do, I also perceive how much more there is that I do not know. Which makes me wary of committing myself too confidently, and has taught me that to vaunt one’s knowledge is a dangerous folly.”
General Sullivan laughed that frank, manly, and very winning laugh of his. Then his features gradually became sombre again.
“Colonel Broadhead, at Fortress Pitt, sent you a supposed Wyandotte who might have been your undoing,” he said abruptly. “He is a cautious officer, too, yet see how he was deceived! Are you also likely to be deceived in any of your Indians?”
“No, sir.”