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A head rose panting to the surface, and with a few strong strokes the swimmer had clutched the gunwale. It was Ayacanora! "Go back!" shouted Amyas. "Go back, girl!" She uttered the same wild cry with which she had fled into the forest. "I will die, then!" and she threw up her arms. Another moment, and she had sunk. To see her perish before his eyes! who could bear that?
John Brimblecombe had great doubts whether a venture thus started by direct help and patronage of the fiend would succeed; and Amyas himself, disliking the humbug, told Ayacanora that it would be better to have told the tribe that it was a good deed, and pleasing to the Good Spirit. "Ah!" said she, naively enough, "they know better than that.
He stood still a minute or two, bearing that fair burden, ere he could recollect himself. Then, "Ayacanora, you are not yet mistress of yourself, my child. You were better to go down, and see after poor Lucy, and we will talk about it all to-morrow." She gathered herself up instantly, and with eyes fixed on the deck slid through the group, and disappeared below.
Amyas was silent awhile; while Ayacanora, who was evidently utterly exhausted by the night's adventure, and probably by long wanderings, watchings, and weepings which had gone before it, sank with her head against his knee, fell fast asleep, and breathed as gently as a child. At last he rose in the canoe, and called Cary alongside. "Listen to me, gentlemen, and sailors all.
Her pupil caught at the pause, and filled it up for herself "Like him?" and she turned her head quickly toward the window. "Yes, like him, too," said Mrs. Leigh, with a half-smile at the gesture. "Now, mind your book. Maidens must not look out of the window in school hours." "Shall I ever be an English girl?" asked Ayacanora. "You are one now, sweet; your father was an English gentleman."
And she pointed to Ayacanora, who stood close behind Amyas, watching with keen eyes the whole. "She is a poor wild Indian girl my daughter, I call her. I will tell you her story hereafter." "Your daughter? My grand-daughter, then. Come hither, maiden, and be my grand-daughter." Ayacanora came obedient, and knelt down, because she had seen Amyas kneel. "God forbid, child! kneel not to me.
However, all assembled duly; the stately son of the forest, now transformed into a footman of Sir Richard's, was standing at the font; the service was half performed when a heavy sigh, or rather groan, made all eyes turn, and Ayacanora sank fainting upon Mrs. Leigh's bosom. She was carried out, and to a neighboring house; and when she came to herself, told a strange story.
Yeo has installed himself as major domo, with no very definite functions, save those of walking about everywhere at Amyas's heels like a lank gray wolf-hound, and spending his evenings at the fireside, as a true old sailor does, with his Bible on his knee, and his hands busy in manufacturing numberless nicknacks, useful and useless, for every member of the family, and above all for Ayacanora, whom he insults every week by humbly offering some toy only fit for a child; at which she pouts, and is reproved by Mrs.
Yes, Amyas has come, and with him Will Cary and the honest parson, Jack Brimblecombe, and the good seamen of Devon; and Ayacanora, who knelt down obedient before Mrs. Leigh because she had seen Amyas kneel, and whom Mrs. Leigh took by the hand and led to Bur-rough Court. William Salterne would take none of his share of the treasure which was brought home, and which he had a just claim to.
All the notabilities of Bideford came, of course, to see the baptism of the first "Red man" whose foot had ever trodden British soil, and the mayor and corporation-men appeared in full robes, with maces and tipstaffs, to do honor to that first-fruits of the Gospel in the West. Mrs. Leigh went, as a matter of course, and Ayacanora would needs go too.
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