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"Aye, and await it, too, without iood-huravely O'Neil sat down at the piano and played "The World Turned Upside-Down," all drifting into the singing, voice after voice; and the beauty of Walter Butler's voice struck all, so that presently, one by one, we fell silent, and he alone carried the quaint old uitar hereabouts," blurted out Sir Peter, ht, and Walter Butler received it without falseit drea: "Ninon! Ninon! Que fais-tu de la vie? L'heure s'enfuit, le jour succède au jour, Rose, ce soir--demain flétrie Comment vis-tu, toi qui n'as pas d'amour?

Ouvrez-vous, jeunes fleurs Si la mort vous enlève, La vie est un so faded, lingering like perfus died out All weree desired in perfect taste and with a simplicity that fascinated all

I, too, stoodto think of what I had heard of the nearness of his Excellency to New York, and how I er and the proposed atteiven no sign of readiness; all present, even Sir Henry, stood within a circle around Walter Butler So I stepped quietly into the hallway and hastened up the stairs to my chamber, which I locked first, then seized paper and quill and fell to scribbling: "TO HIS EXCELLENCY, GEN'L WASHINGTON: "Sir--I regret to report that, through thoughtlessness and inadvertence, I have ers, who is now here on a mission to enlist the aid of Sir Henry Clinton in a new attempt on the frontier His purpose in this enterprise is to ruin our granaries, punish the Oneidas friendly to us, and, if aided froa, and Schenectady Sir John Johnson, Major Ross, and Captain Butler are preparing to gather at Niagara Fort They expect to place a strong, swift force in the field--Rangers, Greens, Hessians, Regulars, and partizans, not counting Brant's Iroquois of the Seneca, Cayuga, and Mohawk nations

"The trysting-place is named as Thendara Only an Iroquois, adopted or native, can understand how Thendara is to be found It is a town that has no existence--a fabled town that has existed and will exist again, but does not now exist It is a mystic terns present at the Rite of Condolence At a federal council of the Five Nations, at a certain instant in the ceremonies, that spot which for a week shall be chosen to represent the legendary and lost town of Thendara, is designated to the clan attestants