Warily he began negotiating for immunity, and when he was fully assured that if he would use his influence to quiet his people and keep them from the warpath his life would be spared, he consented to return.
He had been lonely and unhappy in Canada.

An accomplished orator and a man with a gift of leadership, he had pined for audiences to sway and for men to do his bidding.

He felt sure that these would be restored to him once he came back among his people.

As to his pledges, I have no doubt that he fully intended to live up to them.

He carried in his head all the treaties that had been made between his people and the white men, and could recite their minutest details, together with the dates of their making and the names of the men who had signed for both sides.
But he was a stickler for the rights of his race, and he devoted far more thought to the trend of events than did most of his red brothers.
Here was his case, as he often presented it to me: "The White Man has taken most of our land.