Chapter 100
“But as unhappy as I was for myself, I despaired for you. How could you find happiness? At least someone shared my lodge, and I had my duties. When you went to the white man’s town, I wept. There, I have told you something no one else in the world knows. I cried like some child who has dirtied himself. But in the bottom of my heart, I knew you would be back. I only wondered when and if you would be alone. I half hoped you would bring someone back with you.
“When you and Butterfly married, I was overjoyed. I saw you loved her in your own way, and if the passion was not great, at least it was sufficient. But fate took her away, and I feared for you again. I was pleased when Lone Eagle took you. He is arrogant and impetuous, but he is a good man. The sad thing is that he is content. Oh, he fights with you, but what man does not fight with his mate? And I suspect he comes back to apologize the only way he knows.”
“Then why?” I asked through a collapsed throat.