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When he saw that he stood alone, he stepped back against the wall, drew hiht, and folded his arht that ould shoot hist us, a show for the idle and for the strangers that the ships brought in

The din had ceased, and we the living, the victors, stood and looked at the vanquished dead at our feet, and at the dead beyond the gates, and at the neck upon which was no living foe, and at the blue sky bending over all Our hearts told us, and told us truly, that the lesson had been taught, that no more forever need we at Jamestown fear an Indian attack And then we looked at hiaze with his folded arainst the wall Many of us could re for the first tie and its wonders For idleness we had set hireen by the fort, and had called hi at the quickness of our wit, and adave of a splendid ht before

Slowly, as one man, and with no spoken word, we fell back, the half circle straightening into a line and leaving a clear pathway to the open gates The wind had ceased to blow, I reh-heooden stakes, and a little patch of tender grass across which stretched a dead

The Indian out of whose path to life and freedolanced froates and the forest beyond, and understood For a fullnot a muscle, still and stately as some noble masterpiece in bronze Then he stepped froh the sunshine that turned the eagle feather in his scalp lock to gold His eyes were fixed upon the forest; there was no change in the superb cal line of the living that spoke no word, and out of the gates and across the neck, walking slowly that we ht yet shoot him down iffit to repent ourselves, and proudly like a king's son There was no sound save the church bells ringing for our deliverance He reached the shadow of the trees: a moment, and the forest had back her own