Now hear and heed. The end is come.
"For this once ye shall be fed--by the blood of my heart, ye shall be fed!
And another year ye shall labour, and get the fruits of your labour, and
not stand waiting, as it were, till a fish shall pass the spear, or a
stag water at your door, that ye may slay and eat. The end is come, ye
idle men. O chief, harken! One of your braves would have slain me, even
as you slew my brother--he one, and you a thousand. Speak to your people
as I have spoken, and then come and answer for the deed done by your
hand. And this I say that right shall be done between men and men.
Speak."
Jim had made his great effort, and not without avail. Arrowhead rose
slowly, the cloud gone out of his face, and spoke to his people, bidding
them wait in peace until food came, and appointing his son chief in his
stead until his return.
"The white man speaks truth, and I will go," he said. "I shall return,"
he continued, "if it be written so upon the leaves of the Tree of Life;
and if it be not so written, I shall fade like a mist, and the tepees
will know me not again.
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