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He laid his dark fingers into his feet,of warriors "These are Captain Percy's guides and friends," he announced "The sun is high; it is tione Here are presents for him and for my brother the Governor" As he spoke, he took from his neck the rope of pearls and from his arm a copper bracelet, and laid both upon my palm

I thrust the pearls within my doublet, and slipped the bracelet upon h," I said briefly "When we reet you with eathered around us; and now the druain, and the n from the ance men and woo upon a journey, to the edge of the village where the an Only the dark E in the sunshine, with the peace pipe lying on the grass at their feet, and the windthe branches overhead I looked back and saw them thus, and wondered idly howon the black paint Of Nantauquas we had seen nothing Either he had gone to the forest, or upon soe

We bade farewell to the noisy throng who had brought us upon our way, and went down to the river, where we found a canoe and rowers, crossed the streaood-by, entered the forest It was Wednesday h Three suns, Nantauquas had said: on Friday, then, the bloould fall Three days! Once at Jamestown, it would take three days to warn each lonely scattered settlement, to put the colony into any posture of defense What of the leagues of danger-haunted forest to be traversed before even a single soul of the three thousand could be warned?

As for the three Indians,--who had their orders to go sloho at any suspicious haste or question or anxiety on our part were to kill us whoe that , they left it forever There were times when Diccon and I had no need of speech, but knew each other's h no word had been spoken, ere agreed to set upon and slay our guides the first occasion that offered