The great war of the white kings which draws us in it has come, but I know that Hayowentha watches over his people, and Tododaho over his.

In the spring when I went forth in the night to fight the Hurons I gazed off there in the west where shines the great star on which Tododaho makes his home, and I saw him looking down upon me, and casting about me the veil of his protection." Daganoweda looked up at the gleaming blue of the heavens, and his eyes glittered again.

He believed every word that Tayoga said.
"As Tododaho watches over you, so Hayowentha watches over me," he said, "and he will bring me back in safety and victory from the St.Lawrence.Farewell again, my brother." "Farewell once more, Daganoweda!" The Mohawk chief plunged into the forest, and his fifty warriors followed him.

Like a shadow they were gone, and the waving bushes gave back no sign that they had ever been.

Captain Colden rubbed his eyes and then laughed.
"I never knew men to vanish so swiftly before," he said, "but last night was good proof that they were here, and that they came in time.