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"I shall hardly be troubled with co toward"

Nantauquas sht one frohs for a piece of copper, and took hi below the fort"

"Where all the toill presently be gone," I said "I wonder what Rolfe did that for!"

Filling a cup with sack, I pushed it to the Indian across the table "You are little in the woods nowadays, Nantauquas"

His fine dark face clouded ever so slightly "Opechancanough has drea birds have lied to hi him that I love the white man, and hate my own color He calls me no more his brave, his brother Powhatan's dear son I do not sit by his council fire now, nor do I lead his war bands When I went last to his lodge and stood before him, his eyes burned me like the coals the Monacans once closed my hands upon He would not speak to ain," I said "You have been to the forest to-day?"

"Yes," he replied, glancing at the smear of leaf mould upon his beaded moccasins "Captain Percy's eyes are quick; he should have been an Indian I went to the Paspaheghs to take them the piece of copper I could tell Captain Percy a curious thing"-"Well?" I dee of the ance with the copper, and found hione to the weirs for fish,--he and ten of his braves The old hs, and no e, and the ht me chinquapin cakes and pohickory; for Nantauquas is a prince and a welcoh The oldonly the days when he was even as Nantauquas They never knehen a wife of the ance, turned child by pride, unfolded a doeskin and showed Nantauquas a silver cup carved all over and set with colored stones"

"Humph!"

"The cup was a heavy price to pay," continued the Indian "I do not knohat great thing it bought"

"Huain "Did you happen to meet Master Edward Sharpless in the forest?"

He shook his head "The forest is wide, and there are h it Nantauquas looked for that of the ance of the Paspaheghs, but found it not He had no time to waste upon a white man"