"But there is one who has long lived with us whose heart would be rejoiced to see her," said Ponoko.  "You may remember when I parted from you I promised to try and save the lives of any of our pale-faced prisoners.  I succeeded in saving that of one man just as he was about to be tortured and killed, but it was on condition that he would swear to remain with us, and never betray us to our enemies.  He was a great hunter, and brave as the bravest among us.  He also, we found, was not one of the Long-knives, but was a subject of the Queen of the Pale-faces.  He has kept his promise, though he might often have made his escape.  He had been many months with us, before I found how sorely his heart yearned to get away, and I would have set him free, but the other chiefs would not consent.  He looked upon me as his friend.  He told me that his child and all his household had died by the hands of our people, except his wife, who was away in one of the big cities in the east at the time we attacked the place.  I was thus led to tell him of the little girl I had saved and given over to you, and he has ever since been hoping that she might prove to be one of his children.  He has hoped and hoped until he has persuaded himself that such she is. Thus I know how it would rejoice his heart to see her."