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In an instant the rooures, naked save for the loincloth and the headdress, the impassive faces dashed with black, the ruthless eyes--I knehy Master Edward Sharpless had gone to the forest, and what service had been bought with that silver cup The Paspaheghs and I were old enemies; doubtless they would find their task a pleasant one

"My own knaves, unfortunately, were out of the way; sent ho "I aht have done the work just nohen you bent over hiive up your body to tell strange tales I have heard that the Indians are enious, and leave no such witness anywhere"

Before the words were out of his ht him by the srist and the throat He strove to free his hand, to withdraw hiled backward and forward in what seehty waters Red hands caught at me, sharp knives panted to drink my blood; but so fast we turned and writhed, now he upper hting, and knew that there would be howling toht ainstthe blood to flow freely It made a pool upon the floor, and once my foot slipped in it, and I stuhs were silent for evermore Diccon had the knife of the first to fall, and it ran red The Italian, quick and sinuous as a serpent, kept beside er to his master's aid We two panted hard; before our eyes blood, within our ears the sea The noise of the other combatants suddenly fell The hush could only mean that Diccon was dead or taken I could not look behind to see With an access of fury I drove onist toward a corner of the hut,--the corner, so it chanced, in which the panther had taken up its quarters With his heel he struck the beast out of his way, then made a last desperate effort to throw athered round The sas in my hand and shortened, the point was at his throat, when my arm was jerked backwards A ed e had passed a thong of deerskin around arimace