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On this ht whitening his dark lin to question or reason or entreat Alike in the darkness of the deep woods, and in the silver of the glades, and in the long twilight stretches of sassafras and sighing grass, there was for me but one vision Slender and still and white, she moved before me, with her wide dark eyes upon my face Jocelyn! Jocelyn!

At sunrise the mist lifted from a low hill before us, and showed an Indian boy, painted white, poised upon the suht He prayed to the One over All, and his voice caht of us he bounded down the hillside like a ball, and would have rushed away into the forest had not a Paspahegh starting out of line seized him and set him in our midst, where he stood, cool and undismayed, a warrior in miniature He was of the Pahs were at peace; therefore, when he saw the totem burnt upon the breast of the ance, he becao before us to his village, upon the banks of a streahs rested under the trees until the old h the brown fields and past the ring of leafless reen turf ht for their hands Later on, the woreat breakfast of fish and turkey and venison, maize bread, tuckahoe and pohickory When it was eaten, the Paspaheghs ranged therass, the Pamunkeys faced them, and each warrior and old ravely, in a silence broken only by an occasional slow and stately question or coled with the sunshine falling freely through the bare branches; the streae rippled and shone, and the wind rose and fell in the pines upon its farther bank

Diccon and I had been freed for the ti, and when the Indians raised their eyes froaze steadfastly at us I knew their ways, and how they valued pride, indifference, and a bravado disregard of the worst an enemy could do They should not find the white e