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"Well," I said dryly as he paused "I will take his h Now listen to the words of Nantauquas, the son of Wahunsonacock, a war chief of the Powhatans There are two sharp knives there, hanging beneath the bow and the quiver and the shield Take them and hide them"

The words were scarcely out of his lish blades I took the one he offered o aroodwill consort not with such toys"

"You e in his low, ht in the forest that you should not see, if they think you know more than you are meant to know, then those three, who have knives and tomahawks, are to kill you, whoht that we should not see, know more than we are o slowly, too, through the forest to Ja to eat and to sleep For the with the hunter behind him"

"Then we shouldor eating orpause?"

"Yea," he replied, "if you would not die, you and all your people"

In the silence of the hut the fire crackled, and the branches of the trees outside, bent by the wind, ainst the bark roof

"How die?" I asked at last "Speak out!"

"Die by the arrow and the toiven the red men To-morrow's sun, and the next, and the next,--three suns,--and the tribes will fall upon the English At the same hour, when the men are in the fields and the wohtans, Paspaheghs, Chickahominies, Pamunkeys, Arrowhatocks, Chesapeakes, Nansemonds, Accomacs,--as one man will they strike; and from where the Powhatan falls over the rocks to the salt water beyond Accomac, there will not be one white man left alive"

He ceased to speak, and for a minute the fire made the only sound in the hut Then, "All die?" I asked dully "There are three thousand Englishhting reat bay are many, and they have sharpened their hatchets and filled their quivers with arrows"