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"Go on, go on!" I cried "What did you do? You have said that she is alive and safe!"

"She is," he answered, "but no thanks to h I did set lustily upon that painted fry Who led them, d' ye think, Ralph? Who saved us froht broke in upon ht you here"-"Ay, he sent away the devils whose color he is, worse luck! He told us that there were Indians, not of his tribe, between us and the town If ent on we should fall into their hands But there was a place that was shunned by the Indian as by the white ht find the woods clear He guided us to this dise to us Ay, he told her that you were alive He said no more than that; all at once, ere ithin the wood and the twilight was about us, he was gone"

He ceased to speak, and stood regarding ed face I took his hand and raised it to my lips "I owe you more than I can ever pay," I said "Where is she, ht the centre of the wood, and because she was so chilled and weary and shaken I did dare to build a fire there Not a foe has co to try to make the town I came down to the stream just now to find, if I could, how near ere to the river"-He broke off,aisles of pine trees, and then, with aa little way down the streareat tree and his eyes upon the slow, deep water

She was corow out of the dusk between the trees, and the darkness in which I had walked of late fell away The wood that had been so gloo up around me I had felt no wonder She ca ar that I was near I went not to meet her,--it was my fancy to have her come to me still,--but when she raised her eyes and saw me I fell upon my knees