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Updated: June 4, 2025
An owl began to hoot one of those great, fierce cat-owls of the North. Every Indian listened. The Sagamore said pleasantly to the Wyandotte: "It is as though he were calling the lynxes together as Amochol the Accursed summons his Cat-People to the sacrifice." "I know nothing of Amochol and his sacrifices," said the Wyandotte carelessly. "Yet you Wyandottes border the Western Gate."
"I have dreamed I was scalped, and my hair still grows." "You are not out of the woods yet," he said, sombrely. "That does not worry me." "Nor me. Yet, I do believe in premonition." "That is old wives' babble." "Maybe, Loskiel. Yet, I know I shall not leave this wilderness alive." "Lord!" said I, attempting to jest. "You should set up as a rival to Amochol and tell us all our fortunes."
Sign of life there was none; the current of the narrow stream ran like smooth oil; nor was its motion visible where it wound between soft, black banks of depthless swamp through immemorial shadows. The Mohican's voice came to me, low in the silence, sounding dull and remote; nor did his dreaming eyes move in their vague intensity. "This is the land of Amochol," he said.
Thus shall Boyd move to cut off Amochol from the lake, while you and I and the Oneidas and the Yellow Moth must thread this swamp and comb it clean to head him from the rivers south of us." "Is there a path along the ridge?" "No path, Loskiel. So Boyd shall march by compass, slowly, seeking over the level way, and open woods, with the artillery and wagons ever in his thoughts.
"Dear did you ever learn that you are a 'Hidden Child'?" "What is that, Euan?" "Then you do not know?" She shook her head. And so I told her; told her also all that we had guessed concerning her; how that her captive mother, terrified by Amochol and his red acolytes, had concealed her, consecrated her, and, somehow, had found a runner to carry her beyond the doors of the Long House to safety.
She will see my face and know me, calling me by name! Oh, happiness! Oh, miracle! Will the night never come!" "Dear maid and tender! You should not build your hopes too high, so that they crush you utterly if they must fall to earth again." "I know. Amochol may have slain her. We will learn all when you take Amochol when God delivers him into your hands this night.... How will you do it, Euan?"
"Here, through these viewless shades, his sway begins, as this stream begins, whose source is darkness and whose current moves slowly like thick blood. Here is the haunt of witch and sorcerer of the hag Catrine, of the Wyoming Fiend, of Amochol of Amochol! Here run the Andastes, hunting through the dusk like wolves and foxes running, smelling, listening, ever hunting.
Through the clattering confusion of the double discharge, the demoniac laughter of the Erie rang, and my Oneidas, retreating, hurled back insult and anathema, promising to return and annihilate every living sorcerer in the Dark Empire, including Amochol himself. "Ha-e!" he shouted after us, giving the evil spirits' cry. "Ha-e! Ha-ee!"
The orthodox priesthood of the Long House shudders and looks askance, but dares not interfere. As for Sir John, and Butler, and McDonald, what do they care as long as their Senecas are inflamed to fury, and fight the more ruthlessly? No, sir, only the priesthood of our own allies has dared to accept the challenge from Amochol and his People of the Cat.
We stood at salute while he wheeled, and, followed by his considerable staff, walked his fine horse away toward the train of artillery which stood near by, the gun-teams harnessed and saddled, the guns limbered up, drivers and cannoneers in their saddles and seats. "Well," said Boyd heavily, "shall we be about this matter of Amochol?"
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