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Thus four days dragged the of the fifth, e ca by the fire, s of the ambassador, motionless as a piece of bronze, and apparently quite unlances of the wo our breakfast When he saw us he rose and calad to see hi," he said "I was afraid that Captain Percy would be gone to Jamestown before I was back upon the Paain, Nantauquas?" I demanded "I have my doubts"

He lookedthe candor of his own "You go with the next sunrise," he answered "Opechancanough has given lad to hear it," I said "Why have we been kept at all? Why did he not free us five days agone?"

He shook his head "I do not know Opechancanough has hts which he shares with no man But noill send you with presents for the Governor, and with reat feast to-day, and to-night the youngyou will go"

"Will you not cost us, Nantauquas, both for your sister's sake and for your own Rolfe will rejoice to have you with hieth you to the forest"

He shook his head again "Nantauquas, the son of Powhatan, hath had much talk with himself lately," he said siood to hireater than Okee, and to be good and tender; not like Okee, who sucks the blood of the children He remembers Matoax, too, and how she loved and cared for the white er threatened theh is his king, and the red men are his people, and the forest is his home If, because he loved Rolfe, and because the ways of the white ot these things, he did wrong, and the One over All frowns upon hiain, to the forest and the hunting and the warpath, to his king and his people He will be again the panther crouching upon the bough"-"Above the white men?"