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Suspicious lest, after all, I had to do with a blue-eyed Indian or painted Tory, I exahly And, after a little while, a strange apprehension settled into absolute conviction as I looked So certain was I that every gathered muscle relaxed; I drew a deep, noiseless breath of relief, s the secret door swing to behind ure sprang to its feet, whirling to confrontinto the dark, dilated eyes of a young girl

"Have no fear," I began quietly; and the next instant the words were driven into littering

Round the walls we reeled, staggering, wrestling, clinched like infuriated wolverines I had her wrist inknife soon clattered to the boards, but she suddenly set her crooked knee insideus both sideways to the floor, where we rolled, desperately locked, she twisting and reaching for the knife again and again, until I kicked it behindher with th, her sinuous twisting, her courage, so astonishedalility andan to sway; her dark, defiant eyes narrowed to two fla slits; her distorted ht the flash of locked teeth crushing back the broken, panting breath I held her like a vise; she could no longer id features, convulsed with rage, relaxed into a blank, s her whole body falling loose-lirew quieter andherself against the ith one hand; and, stepping back, I sank one knee, and whipped the knife from the floor

That she now looked for death atdressed as a forest-runner who knows no sex when htly; the lip curl contehtily facedof bastard nation!" she panted; "look me between the eyes and strike!"

"Little sister," I answered gravely, using the soft Oneida idiom, "let there be peace between us"