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And my brother will be welcome to the Conestogas, and he shall be made one of them, and become a great warrior, and both he and Monakatocka will forget the evil days when they were slaves until they meet a paleface from the great water. My brother has but to speak." "If these hills in front of us," said Landless with gloomy emphasis, "were higher than the Alps, I would climb them.
"Monakatocka, I thought it had been you," said Landless quietly. With the never failing "Ugh!" the Indian took Landless's hand and with it touched his own dark shoulder. "I too am grateful, and with far more reason," said Landless smiling. "I will be yet more so if you will bring me out upon the bank of the river at some distance above yonder encampment." "What will my brother do then?"
As he gazed at this frail shelter, he saw the flutter of a white gown pass the opening which served as door. "Night soon," said Monakatocka at his ear. "Then will my brother see one Iroquois cheat all these Algonquin dogs." They drew further back into the dense shade of the overhanging boughs.
"The Pamunkey!" exclaimed Landless. The Indian nodded and led the way to a thicket of dwarf willow and alder that grew upon the very brink of the creek. "While the palefaces slept, Monakatocka was busy. Look!" he said, parting the bushes and pointing. Within the thicket, drawn up upon the sloping mud, were two large canoes, quite empty save for a debris of broken oars. Landless gasped.
It swayed against him, and the head fell back across his arm. He raised the fainting figure, and stepping across the body of the mulatto issued from the shed, to find Monakatocka standing beside the entrance, knife in hand, and watchfully regardful of the sleeping Ricahecrians.
"Monakatocka took you for the man for whom they hunt with dogs through the forest, scaring the deer from the licks and the partridge from the fern.
After a while they will find it, and after another while they will find that the chief of the Conestogas and his white brother and the maiden have gone up the stream, and they will come after us. But that will not be until after the full sun power, and by then we must be far from here." "It is good," said Landless briefly. "Monakatocka has the wisdom of the woods."
He had heard no sound, but there, within three feet of him, were the high features and the bold eyes of the Susquehannock. "Monakatocka has been to the great rock," he said in a guttural whisper. "The Algonquin dogs sleep sound, for they do not know that a Conestoga is on their trail. They have camped beneath the rock three days, and they will move on the morrow.
"The great Spirit threw us into the light in time. Monakatocka had been forever shamed had his knife drunk the life of his friend." "Why did you set upon me?" demanded Landless, still breathless from the struggle, while the Indian was as calmly composed as upon the day of their first meeting.
They have gone through the forest towards the Powhatan. My brother cannot see their trail, for the eyes of the palefaces are clouded, but Monakatocka sees it." Landless turned upon him. "Will Monakatocka go with me against the Ricahecrians?" "Monakatocka has dreamt of the village on the pleasant river where he was born.
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