If the fortunes of Dagaeoga take
him on another long circle I am ready to go with him."
"Spoken like a warrior, Tayoga," said the hunter. "I have some
influence, and if we join the army that is to march against Fort
Duquesne I'll see that you receive a place befitting your Onondaga
rank and your quality as a man."
"And so that is settled," said Robert. "We three stand together no
matter what may come."
"Stand together it is, no matter what may come," said Willet.
"We are, perhaps, as well in one place as in another," said Tayoga
philosophically, "because wherever we may be Manitou holds us in the
hollow of his hand."
A great gust of wind came with a shriek down one of the gorges, and
the snow was whipped into their faces, blinding them for a moment.
"It is good to be aboard a stout sloop in such a storm," said Robert,
as he wiped his eyes clear. "It would be hard to live up there on
those cliffs in all this driving white winter."
A deep rumbling sound came back from the mountains, and he felt a
chill that was not of the cold creep into his bones.
"It is the wind in the deep gorges," said Tayoga, "but the winds
themselves are spirits and the mountains too are spirits.
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