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"Perhaps not," said Haward lightly "It is a very foolish thing to do"

The flame died out, and the trader tossed aside the charred bit of bark

"There was old Pierre at Monacan-Toho taught rand and fine is a French gentlelish great pigs, with brains as

dull and hter

of a chief She had strings of pearl for her neck, and copper for her

arms, and a robe of white doeskin, very soft and fine When she was dead

and lish school

over yonder I can read and write I ao to the villages in the woods, I aather to hear a white irl, that Ma'm'selle Audrey that I wish for wife

We are enemies: that is as it should be You shall not have her,--never,

never! But you despise ht in your cursed house, you laughed"-The Haward of theface opposite hihed again At the

sound the trader's face ceased to twitch Haward felt rather than saw the

stealthy tightening of the frarasp upon the knife, and flung out his ar