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"Ay, uises I ao to the enemy Nor can monsieur hinder

me" As she spoke these words she suddenly drew a pistol, and cocking

it placed the cold, glittering barrel within a foot of the leader's

face

"Unhand my bridle or by our Holy Lady I fire" The coward hand

quivered, the fingers relaxed, and the bridle was free

"Now I advise ht I will

not suffer any bar toforward, and she disappeared down the slope, leaving the

baulked chief sitting upon his horse still as a stone Away, away out

over the soft grassy plain she sped, swiftly and as lightly as a bird

ht of Hickory Bush, a

grove of trees straggling up froation of witches with draggled hair, suffering

torture Beyond the trees shone a cluster of white careat bound as she saw by the order prevailing

there, that the in into

the midst of the camps and shouted, "Awaken! Arise! Quick! The Crees are bound hither to ure sprang fronised his ht eye, his

musical voice