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Ross glared up at him, that same hot rage which had led to his attack on Tulka now urging him to the only defiance he had left words. "Look well, Foscar. Free me, and I would do more than look at you," he said in the speech of the woods hunters.
"Sharp tongue," he commented. "Tulka lost knife ax? So! Ennar," he called over his shoulder, and one of the men stepped out a pace beyond his fellows. He was shorter and much younger than his chief, with a boy's rangy slimness and an open, good-looking face, his eyes bright on Foscar with a kind of eager excitement.
When Ross counted faces he learned that Tulka and another had both disappeared, possibly to contact and warn the aliens they were coming. It was midafternoon before the scouts reappeared, as unobtrusively as they had gone. They went before Foscar with a report which brought the chief over to Ross. "We go. Your chief waits " Ross raised his swollen, bitten face and made his usual protest.
His escape from injury was a puzzle to the tribesman, who, failing to find any trace of burn on him, left Ross alone and went to sit well away from his prisoner as if he feared him. They did not have long to wait. One by one, those who had ridden in Foscar's company gathered at the grove. The very last to come were Ennar and Tulka, carrying the body of their chief.
"He wear covering like you." "But was he like me?" persisted Ross. He didn't know what he was trying to learn, only that it seemed important at that moment to press home to at least one of the tribesmen that he was different from the man who had put a price on his head and to whom he was to be sold. "Not like!" Tulka spoke over his shoulder.
The conception of a raft voyage apparently got across, for the tribesman was nodding. Getting to his feet, he walked across to take up the nose rope of the waiting horse. "You come camp Foscar. Foscar chief. He like you show trick how you take Tulka, make him sleep hold his ax, knife." Ross hesitated. This Tulka seemed friendly now, but would that friendliness last? He shook his head.
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