Mr.Lawrence joined in, and I saw the Indian's eyes kindle.
He shook his head, and seemed to deny something.

Then he poured forth a flood of talk, and when he had finished Ringan spoke to me.
"He says that the Tuscaroras are stirring.

Word has come down from the hills to be ready for a great ride between the Moon of Stags and the Corngathering." Lawrence nodded.

"That's an old Tuscarora habit; but somehow these ridings never happen." He said something in Sioux to one of the warriors, and got an emphatic answer, which he translated to me.

"He thinks that the Cherokees have had word from farther north.