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"Captain Renault! Captain Renault!" called out ara, pack and sack bouncing and flopping

"My wife has news of your lady," he said, pointing to a sli woman who stood in the doorway, a shawl over her wind-blown hair

I turned as she advanced, looking me earnestly in the face

"Your lady was in the fort late last night, sir," she began A fit of coughing choked her; overhead the dreadful clangor of the bell dinned and dinned

Dumb, stunned, I waited while she fumbled in her soiled apron, and at last drew out a crumpled letter

"I'll tell you what I know," she said weakly "We had been to the Hall; the sky was all afire My little boy grew frightened, and she--your sweet lady--she lifted hiht, sir----"

A fit of coughing shook her She handed , ears stunned by the iron din of the bell which had never ceased, I read her last words to , I don't knohere you are Please God, you are not at Oswaya, where they tell me the Indians have appeared above Varicks Dearest lad, your Oneida came with your letter I could not reply, for there were no expresses to go to you Colonel Willett had news of the enemy toward Fort Hunter, and ht head theht there was an alar to the Hall, and I went, too, being anxious, now that you are out there alone somewhere in the darkness

"Oh, Carus, the sky was all red and fiery behind Tribes Hill; and wo all around er, Mount, if he had news of you, and he was gentle and kind, and strove to comfort me, but he went aith his co where the druht

"Soain, and omen will catch it now'

"And then a child screamed, and its mother was too weak to carry it, so I took it back for her to the jail

"I sat in the jailer's roo Outside the barredI heard a wo how Butler's a--an express having arrived with news of horrors unspeakable