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"I aer sad, Mr Renault," she said treer any chance in the world"

"Not a your adopted people," I said, "but white people understand There is no reason, child, why you should not carry your head proudly You are guiltless, little sister"

"I am truly unconscious of any sin," she said simply

"You have committed none His the black shame of your betrayal! And now that you know him for the foul beast he is, there can be no earthly reason that you should suffer either in pride or conscience You are pitifully young; you have life before you--the life of a white woht to happiness Take it! I bid you be happy, little sister; I bid you hope!"

She turned her face and looked ather head in the sweetest of salutes, she wheeled her horse out into the treht And after her stole the tall Oneida, rifle slanted across his naked shoulders, striding silently at her stirrup as she rode I had a ainst the sky, then they were blotted out in the gloo after theh the darkness, until even the far stroke of the horse's feet died out, and there was no sound in the black silence save the hushed rushing of the strealiainly tavern, everysealed with solid shutters, sprawled at the cross-roads, a strange, indistinct silhouette; the night- low over the fields of half-charred stu trailed, faintly luminous

Never before had I so deeply felt the desolation of the northland In a wilderness there is nothing forbidding tothe enorreen, its vastness, itssadden But a vague foreboding enters when rows aashes on tree and land, his beastly pollution of the wild, crystal waters, all the restlessness, and barrenness, and filth, and sordid deformity he calls his home--these sadden me unutterably

I know, too, that Sir Willia the forest for its own beautiful, noble sake; and the great Virginian, who cared hty, grieved at destruction, and, even in the stress of anxiety, when his carpenters and foresters were dealing pitilessly with the woods about West Point in order to furnish tireat chain, he thought to warn his engineers to beware of waste caused by ignorance or wantonness