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"Jack Mount," I said, "take command and march your men forward half a mile Then halt and await ave lance, but my smile seemed to reassure her, and she walked her black mare forward Pastaway northward, until a turn in the forest road hid the wagon and the brown-clad rear-guard Then I disiant pine, my rifle across my knees, to wait for the red ambassador whom I kneould corew that the shy forest creatures came back to this forest runway, made by dreaded man; and because it is the work of a creature they dread and suspect, their curiosity ever draws therouse first stepped out of the thicket, crest erect, ruff spread; then a hare loped by, halting to sniff in the herbage I watched thee wheeled, crest flattened, and ran into the thicket, like a great rat; the hare sat erect, flanks palpitating, then leaped twice, and was gone as shadows go

I saw the roadside bushes stir, part, and, as I rose, an Indian leaped lightly into the road and strode straight toward e, and he was stark naked, except that he wore ankle-ed pouch, like a quiver, covered with scarlet beads in zigzag pattern

He did not seem to notice that I was armed, for he carried his own rifle most carelessly in the hollow of his left arm, and when he had halted before nified silence that always precedes a forth by a low, guttural exclamation as his narrow-slitted eyes fell upon the tattoo on my bared breast: "Salute, Roy-a-neh!"

"Welcoer brother knohich gate-warden he speaks?" asked the savage warily

"When a Wolf barks, the Eastern Gate-Keepers of the Long House listen," I replied "It was so in the beginning What hasglance changed instantly to an absolutely expressionless er made any difference to him We were noo Iroquois

"It is the truth," he said "This is the n of the Wolf Clan of the Oneida nation I am a belt-bearer Witness the truth of what I say to you--by this belt Now read the will of the Iroquois"