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MacLean looked himsical anxiety at several white particles upon his

suit of fine cloth, claret-colored and silver-laced, and quickened his

pace But the snoas but the lazy vanguard of a storm, and so few and

harh and at so of figures seated

upon the Gounod beneath a giant elm, he stopped to observe who and what

they were that sat so still beneath the leafless tree in the winter

weather

The group, that at first glis

uncouth and lubberly and solely of the forest, resolved itself into the

Indian teacher and his pupils, escaped for the afternoon from the bounds

of William and Mary The Indian lads--slender, bronze, and statuesque--sat

in silence, stolidly listening to the words of the white , with his back to the eles a Bible tale It was the story of Joseph and his

brethren The clear, gentle tones of the teacher reached MacLean's ears

where he stood unobserved behind a roadside growth of bay and cedar

A touch upon the shoulder made him turn, to find at his elbow that

sometime pupil of Mr Charles Griffin in whose coed

fro in the woods over there," said Hugon sullenly "I heard the, and I took my leave 'Peste!' said I 'The old, weak man who