"Anyway, his is the finest spirit in all that crowd, and he's the greatest leader and soldier, too.

Notice how they give way to him, and how they stop asking questions of Garay, leaving it to him.

And now Garay himself bows low before him, while De Courcelles, Jumonville and Tandakora stand aside.

I wish we could hear what they say; then we might learn something worth all our risk in coming here." But their voices did not reach so great a distance, though the three, eager to use eye even if ear was of no use, still lay in the bushes and watched the flow of life in the great camp.

Many of the French and Indians who had been asleep awoke, sat up and began to cook breakfast for themselves, holding strips of game on sharp sticks over the coals.
St.Luc talked a long while with Garay, afterward with the French officers and Tandakora, and then withdrew to a little knoll, where he leaned against a tree, his face expressing intense thought.