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Updated: June 4, 2025
Tododaho took flint and steel from his pouch, set fire first to his own fagots and then to all the others, after which he took the pipe of peace, lighted it from one of the fires, and, drawing upon it three times, blew one puff of smoke toward the center of the heavens, another upon the ground, and the last directly toward the rising sun.
The crash of rifles and muskets sank, but both sides were merely preparing for a new battle. Robert examined himself carefully, but found no trace of a wound. "How is it with you, Tayoga?" he asked. "Tododaho and Areskoui have protected me once more," replied the Onondaga. "The exertion has made my shoulder stiff and sore a little, but I have taken no fresh hurt." "And you, Grosvenor?"
"You've changed, Robert," said Willet, merely as a sort of relief to his feelings. "And you haven't, Dave," said Robert, with the same purpose in view. "And you, Tayoga, you're the great Onondaga chief you always were." "I hope to be a chief some day," said Tayoga simply, "and then, when I am old enough, to be a sachem too, but that rests with Tododaho and Manitou.
Perhaps the wicked soul that inhabited his body has gone to inhabit the body of another evil brute, but we are delivered. They will not attack again." "How do you know that, Tayoga?" "Because Tododaho, Tododaho who protects us, is whispering it to me. I do not see him, but he is leaning down from his star, and his voice enters my ear.
Mebbe he thought Tododaho was wrong and that the time for him to settle score with the Ojibway had re'lly come. Any way he wuz off after him like an arrer from the bow." Robert went outside and found Tayoga standing quietly by the front door. "Did you overtake him?" he asked. "No," replied the Onondaga.
The clouds and vapors kept him from seeing the great star upon which his patron saint, Tododaho, sat, but he knew that he was there, and that he was watching over him. He could not have achieved so much in the face of uttermost peril and then fail in the lesser danger.
Then I can fancy that I am back in the great forest, and my soul will be in peace." "And commune, perhaps, with Tododaho on his star," said Robert, not lightly but in all seriousness. "Even so, Dagaeoga. He may have something to tell me, but if he does not it is well to be alone for a while."
His deeds would be all the mightier because of the dangers, and he would never forget that he had the promise of Tododaho, greatest, wisest and noblest of the chiefs of the Hodenosaunee, who had gone to a shining star more than four hundred years ago. He sat down under one of the trees and sleep remained far from him.
"It was not possible for Tandakora to fall before your arms today," said Tayoga. "Why not?" asked Willet, curiously. "It is reserved for him to die by my hand, though the time is yet far off. I know it, because Tododaho whispered it to me more than once today. Let him go now, but his hour will surely come." "You may be right, Tayoga.
"Tomorrow we must think of a way of escape." "Let tomorrow take care of itself. Tayoga, you're too serious! You're missing the pleasure of the night." "Dagaeoga loves to talk and he talks well. His voice is pleasant in my ear like to the murmur of a silver brook. Perhaps he is right. Lo! the clouds have gone, and I can see Tododaho on his star.
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