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Haward had expected to hear a noise of savage triu about their handiwork There was no noise, and the

elessly still and

bright; the tragedy had been played, and thewater had not looked

It took but a fewcorn and reach the

sht to do but to stand

and stare at the ruin, until a tongue of flaht upon a piece of

uncharred wood, and showed the at a little

distance fron froro went and turned it over, then, let it sink again into the

seared grass "Two arrows, Marse Duke," he said, co back to the

other's side "An' they've taken his scalp"

Three ti heap Was it only

ruined and fallen walls, or was it a funeral pyre as well? To know, he

must wait for the day and until the fire had burned itself out If the

former were the case, if the dead h the forest and the e, and to a fate rass with an arrow through his heart

If the girl were still alive, yet was she dead to him He was no Quixote

to tilt indmills Had a way to rescue her lain fair before hiht But the woods were deep and

pathless, and only an Indian could find and keep a trail by night To