Lana and Lois to keep secret whatever was to be said between us two, then, nodding gaily at me:
“You were quite right, Loskiel, in speaking to the General about the proper trap for this Wizard-Sachem Amochol, who is inflaming the entire Seneca nation to such a fury.”
“I know no other way to take and destroy him,” said I.
“There is no other way. It must be done secretly, and by a small party manoeuvring ahead and independently of our main force.”
“Are you to command?” I asked.
“I am to have that honour,” he said eagerly, “and I take you, your savages, and twenty riflemen — — ”