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"She was a woman, a child," he answered "Out of pity she saved your lives, not knowing that it was to the hurt of her people Then you were few and weak, and could not take your revenge Now, if you die not, you will drink deep of vengeance,--so deep that your lips may never leave the cup More ships will coer Thererivers know us, to whoave them, no more" He paused, with unmoved face, and eyes that seemed to pierce the wall and look out into unfathomable distances "Go!" he said at last "If you die not in the woods, if you see again the man whom I called ! Go!"

"Colish will ot no further, for I turned upon him with a stern co, Nantauquas," I said "Couard, ill htly foe should be e that had coone, and his features sternly iain; then, very slowly, he raised his arm from his side and held out his hand His eyes er, half proudly doubtful

I went to him at once, and took his hand in mine No as spoken Presently he withdrew his hand froer to his lips, whistled low to the Indian girl She drew aside the hangingas we had found hiht

Should we ever go through the woods, pass through that gathering storm, reach Ja upon the ever come? When we reached our hut, unseen, and sat down just within the doorway to watch for the dawn, it seeain the leaping Indians between us and the fire fed the tall fla, another took its place; the yelling never ceased, nor the beating of the dru, and there were only two to hear; lish ates, and there was none to cry, "Awake!" When would the dawn coony of waiting, with the leagues on leagues to be traveled, and the time so short! If we never reached those sleepers--I saw the dark warriors gathering, tribe on tribe, war party on war party, thick crowding shadows of death, slipping though the silent forest and the clearings we had lishmen, Kent and Thorpe and Yeardley, Maddison, Wynne, Hamor, the men who had striven to win and hold this land so fatal and so fair, West and Rolfe and Jeremy Sparrow the children about the doorsteps, the women one woman