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"Is Rolfe of the Council?" I asked

"Ay; he was speaking,--for you, I suppose, though I heard not the words They all listened, but they all shook their heads"

"We shall know in the roilder, and honest folks should be abed Nantauquas, good-night When will you have tamed your panther?"

"It is now the moon of cohonks," answered the Indian "When the moon of blossoms is here, the panther shall roll at the beautiful lady's feet"

"Theway off I have panthers ives one wild thoughts, Master Sparrow The loud wind, and the sound of the water, and the hurrying clouds--who knows if we shall ever see the h for my oeakness "It's not often that a soldier thinks of death," I said "Coht, and reat roo at the , to look out upon the fast darkening houses of the town, the ever thickening clouds, and the bending trees; now speaking to my wife, who sat in the chair I had drawn for her before the fire, her hands idle in her lap, her head thrown back against the wood, her face white and still, ide dark eyes We waited for we knew not what, but the light still burned in the Governor's house, and we could not sleep and leave it there

It grew later and later The wind howled down the chimney, and I heaped more wood upon the fire The town lay in darkness now; only in the distance burned like an angry star the light in the Governor's house In the lull between the blasts of wind it was so very still that the sound ofof the charred wood upon the hearth, the tapping of the withered vines without the , jarred like thunder

Suddenly madam leaned forward in her chair "There is some one at the door," she said

As she spoke, the latch rose and soainst the door I had drawn the bars across "Who is it?" I deuarded voice outside "I beg of you, for the lady's sake, to let me speak to you"

I opened the door, and he crossed the threshold I had not seen hiht he would have played the assassin I had heard of hi in Martin's Hundred, hich plantation and its turbulent commander the debtor and the outlaw often found sanctuary