It was like a call to battle, and now he knew what his great aim in life should be.

He would strive with study and practice to make himself first in it, but, for the present, he had other thoughts and purpose.

Willet, however, took fire too from the words of the Mohawk chief.
"I've noticed before, Robert," he said, "that you had the gift of tongues, and we'll make a great orator of you.

In times such as ours a man of that kind is needed bad.

Maybe what Dayohogo thinks ought to be, will be, and you will yet oppose St.Luc before the fifty sachems in the vale of Onondaga." "It would be well," said Dayohogo thoughtfully, "because the men at Albany still give the Hodenosaunee trouble, making a promise seem one thing when it is given, and another when the time to keep it comes." "I know, Dayohogo!" exclaimed Willet, vehemently.