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"A few minutes ride will take you to the river; half an hour then to

the north and you are at Pitt Before I leave, just a word Tall Elk

put on paint to-day, and before the set of to-ion ill not be on the war-path To- up the hatchet;

so Messieurs, look to your guns in the Fort, as you will have more

than three hundred ene of the next roup could utter a word of thanks, the ain to the north-ith the speed of the wind

"That voice!" exclai his forehead "I know it

surely; whose can it be?" and bewildered past hope of enlightenment,

he turned his horse down the slope, and dashed towards the Saskatchewan

His followers and hih by Inspector

Dicken, a son of the great novelist, and destined afterwards to be one

of the heroes of the war

When Annette rode away froround his teeth and swore terrible oaths

"It is as well" heher of liberty" Putting a whistle to hisblast, which was immediately answered from a clump of

cottonwood, about a quarter of a mile distant Then came the tramp of

hoofs, and a minute later a horseman drew bridle by his chief