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"Linked with h places, where I sit unsullied, waiting for you"

For a long while we stood there together at theCandle-light faded frolittering in the starlight, and the tavern lamp went out

And when the last tap-room loiterer had slunk away to camp or cabin, and when the echo of the patrol's tread had died out in the fragrant darkness, ca the knocker; and I saw his spurs and scabbard shining in the luster of the stars, and in my heart a still voice repeated, "This is Destiny ca, armed with Fate This is the place and the hour!"

And it was so, for presently the landlord ca me softly "I come," I answered, and turned to Elsin "Shall I to-morrow find you the same sweet maid I have loved fro , inconstant--the sa, shall become htened, lingered, and fell apart And so I went away down the di there for me And it was, shaped like Colonel Ha the hand of Fate; and I took it and held it, looking hiht between the eyes

"I knohy you have co "I am to journey north andat us by Walter Butler Ah, sir, I was certain of it--I knew it, Colonel Hamilton You make me very, very happy Pray you, inforratitude He has chosen fire to fight fire, I think Every thought, every nerve in , in sickness, in health, in adversity, in prosperity, soul and body andI shall speak to the Oneidas with clan authority; I shall speak to the Iroquois at Thendara; I shall listen to the long roll of the dead; I shall read the record of ages from the sacred belts The eyes of the forest shall see for me; the ears of the wilderness listen for me; every tree shall whisper for me, every leaf spy for uide ht winds shall counselthe way, so that this man shall die and his wickedness be ended forever"