Throughout the winter, the girl Bright Star had been suffering from the growing conviction that it was her action which had driven Yellow Hair to accept the mad plans of the Grand Council.
Time after time she had spoken of it to canny old White Fox and even though he assured her that Yellow Hair had been wholly under orders and had neither advanced nor seconded the scheme except to obey it, Bright Star, each time, uneasily remembered the fury into which she had goaded Yellow Hair.
He had avoided her in the town after that. The presents of fresh game had stopped. Apparently Yellow Hair had forgotten her entirely, taking it for granted that Long Bow would become her husband.
This was in no wise the case. Yellow Hair had known that any approach would only result in the lessening of his own
