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"Scattered," I said, "strewn broadcast up and down the river,--here a lonely house, there a cluster of two or three; they at Jauard,--the men in the fields or at the wharves, the women and the children busy within doors, all unwarned--O my God!"

Diccon strode over fro, I reckon, sir," he cried "Or you wait until ; then there'll be two chances Now that I've a knife, I'ive account of one of them damned sentries, at least Once clear of theesture of dissent "You would only be the first to die"

I leaned against the side of the hut, for htened woo with all our speed we shall be in ti?"

"While you watched the dance," he answered, "Opechancanough and I sat within his lodge in the darkness His heart was e country, south of the sunset, where he and his people dwelt in stone houses and worshiped a great and fierce god, giving him blood to drink and flesh to eat To that country, too, white men had come in ships Then he spoke to reat a chief before the English can that he held his lands fro, and how he hated them; and then he told er of the warpath and the scalp dance,' but that he, who had no son, lovedmy heart to be Indian still; and then I heard what I have told you"

"How long had this been planned?"

"For many moons I have been a child, fooled and turned aside froh to see it beneath the flowers, through the sh send us back to the settle"

"It is his fancy Every hunter and trader and learner of our tongues, living in the villages or straying in the woods, has been sent back to Jamestown or to his hundred with presents and ords that are sweeter than honey He has told the three who go with you the hour in which you are to reach Ja tales to the Governor, with scarce the s of a pipe between those words of peace and the hoop But if those who go with you see reason to misdoubt you, they will kill you in the forest"