Eagle Feather and his Piegans must bear the consequences of their own misdeeds.

On the other hand Eagle Feather pleaded hard that they should stand together in this matter, that the guilty parties could not be disclosed.

The Police could not punish them all, and all the more necessary was it that they should hold together because of the larger enterprise into which they were about to enter.
The absence of the Sioux Chief Onawata, however, weakened the bond of unity which he more than any other had created and damped the ardor of the less eager of the conspirators.

It was likewise a serious blow to their hopes of success that the Police knew all their plans.

Running Stream finally gave forth his decision, which was that the thieves should be given up, and that they all should join in a humble petition to the Police for leniency, pleading the necessity of hunger on their hunting-trip, and, as for the larger enterprise, that they should apparently abandon it until suspicion had been allayed and until the plans of their brothers in the North were more nearly matured.