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When I awoke from the sleep or stupor into which Iupon a bed in a room flooded with sunshine I was alone For aat the blue sky without the , and wondering where I was and how I caave a co me into remembrance, and I was at the hile the voice was yet speaking

It was West in the street below, pointing with his sword now to the fort, now to the palisade, and giving directions to the armed men about him There were many people in the street Women hurried by to the fort hite, scared faces, their arear; children ran beside the close to their elders' skirts;loudly Not all of the faces in the crowd belonged to the town: there were Kingsmell and his wife from the main, and John Ellison from Archer's Hope, and the Italians Vincencio and Bernardo from the Glass House The nearer plantations, then, had been warned, and their people had co, alone of many days, no Indian aired his paint and feathers in the white e

I could not see the palisade across the neck, but I knew that it was there that the fight--if fight there were--would be made Should the Indians take the palisade, there would yet be the houses of the town, and, last of all, the fort in which tosince we had found out their method of warfare They used ambuscade, surprise, and massacre; ithstood in force and with deterhold the forest, there to bide their tiain swoop down upon a sleeping foe

The druer from the palisade caainst us, thicker than ants!" he cried to West as he passed "A boat has just drifted ashore yonder, with two men in it, dead and scalped!"

I turned to leave the roo in on tiptoe, with a red and solemn face He started when he saw ht you to your feet, then!" he cried "You've lain like the dead all night I ca"