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An hour's ride brought us to the block house standing within the forest, h and the village of the tribe We found it well garrisoned, spies out, and thevillage

Ast them was Chanco the Christian I called hi perturbation "Thirty warriors!" I said, when he had finished "And they are painted yelloell as black, and have dashed their cheeks with puccoon: it's l'outrance, then! And the war dance is toward! If we are to pacify this hornets' nest, it's high time we set about it Gentlemen of the block house, we are but twelve, and they may beat us back, in which case those that are left of us will fight it out with you here Watch for us, therefore, and have a sally party ready Forward, men!"

"One moment, Captain Percy," said Rolfe "Chanco, where's the Eo he ith the priests at Uttamussac," answered the Indian "Yesterday, at the full sun power, he was in the lodge of the ance of the Chickahominies He feasts there still The Chickahoret to hear it," I remarked "Whilst they took each other's scalps,direct to Opechancanough," said Rolfe

"Since he's only a league away, so do I," I answered

We left the block house and the clearing around it, and plunged into the depths of the forest In these virgin woods the trees are set well apart, though linked one to the other by the orowth, so that ere able to ood speed Rolfe and I rode well in front of our h the lower branches of the trees, and theThe forest--around us, above us, and under the hoofs of the horses where the fallen leaves lay thick--was as yellow as gold and as red as blood

"Rolfe," I asked, breaking a long silence, "do you credit what the Indians say of Opechancanough?"

"That he was brother to Powhatan only by adoption?"

"That, fleeing for his life, he cao, from some mysterious land far to the south and west?"

"I do not know," he replied thoughtfully "He is like, and yet not like, the people whom he rules In his eye there is the authority of mind; his features are of a nobler cast "-"And his heart is of a darker," I said "It is a strange and subtle savage"