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In that furious onslaught through the darkness and s taken, Indians and Greens chased and shot down, a steady flicker of rifle-fire marked the course of the disastrous rout, and the frenzied vengeance following--an awful vengeance now, for, in the blackness, a new and dreadful sound broke--the fiercelyacross a swampy field, where the dead and scalped lay in the ooze, I shouted the Wolf Clan challenge; and a lone cry answerednearer, nearer, until in the smoke-shot darkness I saw the terrific painted shape of an Indian loo hatchet

"Brother! brother!" I groaned, "by the Wolf whose sign ear, and by the sign of Tharon, follow her who is to be h the haunts of h the still places! Go swiftly, O e you by that life you owe, by that clan tie which breaks not when nations break, by the sign of Tharon, that floats a the stars forever, find me this woman whom I am to wed! Your life for hers, O brother! Go!"