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Awed, I sat in silence; and he turned his gloo his lip in savage retrospection

Instantly I are that he doubted me, and why I looked up at hi head and I ue: "Karon-ta-Ke?--at the Tree?"

"Karon-ta-Kowa-Kon--at the great tree Sat-Kah-tos--thou seest There lies the lost town of Thendara And, save for the council, where you and I have a Wolf's clan-right, no living soul could knohat that word Thendara means God help the Oneida who betrays!"

"Since when and by what nation have you been raised up to sit in the council of condolence?" I asked haughtily; for, strange as it may appear to those who know not what it means to wear the Oneida clan-mark of nobility, I, clean-blooded and white-skinned, was as fiercely proud of this Iroquois honor as any peer of England newly invested with the garter And it was strange, too, for I was but a lad when chosen for the mystic rite; but never except once--the day before I left the north to serve his Excellency's purpose in New York--had I been present when thatroll of dead heroes called in honor of the Great League's founder, Hiawatha

And so, though I a nigh forgotten that I wore the Wolf--and, too, the Long House being divided and I siding with the Oneidas, and so at civil ith the shattered league that served King George--yet I turned on Walter Butler as a Mohawkhis credentials, deht to speak as one who had heard the roll-call of those Io

"The Delawares named me, and the council took me," he said with perfect calmness "The Delaware nation mourned their dead; and now I sit for the Wolf Clan--my elder brother, Renault"

"A Delaware clan is not named in the Rite," I said coldly--"nor is there kinship between us because you are adopted by the Delawares I am aware that clanship knows no nations; and I, an Oneida Wolf, aa Wolf; but I am not brother to you"

"And why not to the twin clan of rily

"Yours is a cleft ensign and a double clan," I sneered; "which are you, Gray Wolf or Yellow Wolf?"