Help some time--not now." And
he turned away again.
"Does the Raven know the White Bird," the chief asked him, "that
she sings his name?"
Tawaina paused and said:
"Tawaina knows her. Her father is the great white brave."
The Indian chief gave a bound of astonishment and pleasure.
"The white brave with the shooting flames?"
Tawaina nodded.
The Raven's meeting with Ethel had been apparently accidental, but
was in reality intentional. Her actual captor was one of the
chiefs, although not the principal one, of the Pampas Indians; and
in the division of the spoil, preparations for which were going on,
there was no doubt that she would be assigned to that tribe,
without any question upon the part of the Raven's people.
Now, however, that the Stag knew who the prisoner I was, he
determined to obtain her for his tribe. He therefore went direct to
the chief of the Pampas Indians, and asked that the white girl
might fall to his tribe.
The chief hesitated.
"She is our only captive," he said. "The people will like to see
her, and she will live in the lodge of the Fox, who carried her
off."
"The Stag would like her for a slave to his wife. He will give
fifty bullocks and two hundred sheep to the tribe, and will make
the Fox's heart glad with a present.
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