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Updated: June 19, 2025
"Your muscles need only the promise of help to give them back their spring, Tegakwita." "The White Chief speaks with a biting tongue." "You have been speaking with a lying tongue. You think I do not know why you have brought me here; you think I do not understand the evil thoughts that fill your mind. You are a coward, Tegakwita. But you will not succeed to-night."
Tegakwita placed her sitting upright in the hole he had dug. By her side he placed the pots and dishes and knives which she had used in preparing the food they two had eaten. He set the provisions before her and in her lap; and drawing a twist of tobacco from his bosom, he laid it at her feet to win her the favour and kindness of his own Manitou on her journey.
He could not tell her of Tegakwita's end. As he went on to the fight with the Long Arrow's band and the flight through the hill country, he thought that she had missed nothing; but when he had finished she said: "And Tegakwita, M'sieu? Did he come with them?" "No," Menard replied; "he did not come. I killed him." He had not meant to let the words come out so brutally.
Menard looked at the musket that rested in the Indian's hand, at the hatchet and knife that hung from his belt. "You are heavily armed, Tegakwita. Is it for the war-path or the hunt? Do Onondaga warriors carry their weapons from house to house in their own village?" The Indian made a little gesture of impatience. "Tegakwita has no house. His house has been dishonoured.
Tegakwita slightly bowed, with an unconscious imitation of the Frenchmen he had seen at Fort Frontenac and Montreal. "Pass on," said Menard, sternly. "You know the trail, Tegakwita; I do not. It is you who must lead the way." The Indian was sullen, but he yielded, plunging forward between the bushes, and now and then, in the shadow of some tree, glancing furtively over his shoulder.
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