The Hidden Children by Robert William Chambers Chapter 5 Page 14

officers from our own corps and from other regiments, with whom we were acquainted, and who greeted us gaily or otherwise, according to their temper and disposition. But everybody — officers, troops, batt-men — looked curiously at our Siwanois Indian, who returned the compliment not at all, but with stately stride and expressionless visage moved straight ahead of him, as though he noticed nothing.

Twice since we had started at daybreak that morning, I had managed to lag behind and question him concerning the maid who now shared well-nigh every thought of mine — asking if he knew who she was, and where she came from, and why she journeyed, and whither.

He answered — when he replied at all — that he had no knowledge of these things. And I knew he lied, but