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Attick, who still carried his gun in the hollow of his left arm, expressed well-feigned surprise at seeing us. "Big Otter seems to be on the war-path," he said, "but I have seen no enemies." "Big Otter's enemy stands before him," returned our leader, sternly. "Attick has been very foolish. Why did he run away with the daughter of Weeum the Good?" "Attick scorns to run away with a squaw.

Having paid his tribesman this compliment, he remounted, and, to my surprise, went straight back the way we had come. "What means this!" I asked, unable to restrain my impatience. "Attick has doubled back, that is all. If there had been more light we should easily have seen that. We shall soon find the place where the trail breaks off again." The Indian was right.

The last words of the old chief as we darted off, were "Bring her back, my braves, and don't forget the scalps of Attick and his men!" A stern chase is usually a long one. There are not many proverbs the truth of which comes more powerfully home than this at least to those who have had the misfortune to engage in many such chases.

It had, indeed, pierced the coin, but had only entered my flesh about a quarter of an inch! Thanking God for the wonderful deliverance, I plucked it out, and, casting it away, rode up to the place where the dead man lay. My companion had turned him over, and to my great surprise, revealed the face of my old foe, Attick! "Waugh!" exclaimed Big Otter, turning to the captured savage.

"Strange," said I, impatiently, "that so simple a device should baffle us." As I spoke, the chief arose, and, dark though it was, I could see a gleam of intelligence on his swarthy visage. "Attick thinks he is wise," he said, in a low voice, "but he has no more brains than a rabbit. He was from childhood an idiot."

December 8. Very busy all this forenoon setting my new house in order, conveying, with the help of the gardener, all those domestic and personal goods that belong to Simon into the attick; but Lord! so few these things, and they so patched and worn, that altogether they are not worth ten shillings of anybody's money.

Hurrying to their tents he found that these also had fled. This was enough. "Masqua," he said to the first Indian he chanced to meet at the moment of quitting the last wigwam, "Attick has carried off Waboose. Assemble some of the young men. Choose only the strong, and those whose horses are swift.

Among these last were Attick and Maqua with his son Mozwa. It was rough but health-giving, as well as enjoyable, work, and sent us to our respective beds that night in a condition of readiness to fall promptly into a state of absolute oblivion. I must beg the reader now to leap with me into the middle of winter. It is New Year's Day.

Indeed, I may say that to an ordinary civilised man who never saw it, the scene is inconceivable, so we will pass on. While these stirring events were taking place inside the hall, a black-faced, red-painted savage was flattening his ugly nose against a pane of glass outside one of the windows. It was Attick, whom our chief had convicted of stealing about the time of our arrival.

The daughter of Weeum the Good must be brought back. It is not necessary to bring back Attick or his men. Their scalps will do as well." "Waugh!" pronounced with much emphasis showed that the old man's words were not only understood, but thoroughly appreciated. At this moment occurred the second event which I have said was the cause of surprise in the camp that night, if not of commotion.