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"I do not know," I said, troubled "Walter Butlerof the Book of Rites, because he was raised up in place of so!--" I clinchedhted

"I ask your indulgence," I said, embarrassed, "but when I think of the insolence of that fellow--and that he dared call me brother and clairel!--" I laughed, glancing shamefacedly at Colonel Hamilton

"In another moment," I said, "you will doubt there is white blood into that dusky foster-mother, the nation that adopted me I was but a lad, Colonel Hamilton, and what the Oneidas saw in me, or believed they saw, I never have accurately learned--I do not really know to this day!--but when a war-chief died they ca that he permit them to adopt me and raise me up The ceremony took place I, of course, never lived with them--never even left my own roof--but I was adopted into the Wolf Clan, the noble clan of the Iroquois And--I have never forgotten it--nor theravely, watchingHouse is not the Five Nations," I continued "The Tuscaroras are the Sixth Nation; the Delawares now have come in, and have been accepted as the Seventh Nation But, as you know, the Long House is split The Onondagas are sullenly neutral--or say they are--the Mohawks, Cayugas, Senecas, are openly leagued against us; the Oneidas alone are with us--what is left of them after the terrible punishment they received from the Mohawks and Senecas"

"And now you say that the Iroquois have deterain?"

"Yes, sir, to annihilate the our cause And," I added contemptuously, "Walter Butler dared believe that I would sit idle and never lift a warning finger True, I am first of all a Wolf--but next am I an Oneida And, as I may not sit in national council with ainst this punish House is rent asunder forever, why, sir, I aiance to my own country--and I shall so conduct that Walter Butler and the Delaware dogs of a cleft and yellow clan will remember that when an Oneida speaks, they rean to pace the chahts Hamilton sat buried inhis hand with that winning frankness so endearing to all I asked hi affairs of moment