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"I shall now give you entleman," Colonel Denison said,

as the horses disappeared over a knoll; "these two lads were not what

they seeirls"

"Impossible!"

"Well, we shall soer one has more than an ordinary interest in Stephens She has

twice already saved his life; and I should not be surprised if she

were now to lay hiation Ha, truant," he

said, turning to one of his staff who had co, "you should have been here to see the

beautiful Metis uise, but her beauty was

not less divine than that of your own Iena Fancy the feelings of

Stephens, when his own fortunes are bright, to have that beautiful

girl straying about this wilderness I can iave st a weedy world,

Where art thou now? In deepest forest shade?

Or onhere the Su form

Fruited, yet odious with the hidden worm?

Or, farther, by some still sequestered lake,

Loon-haunted, where the sinewy panthers slake

Their noon-day thirst, and never voice is heard

Joyous of singing waters, breeze or bird,