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Tell her that her son, Claw-of-the-Eagle, hath met his death bravely and that Pocahontas mourns him with her." Then she dismissed the boy. As he walked away she remembered that she desired him to bear also a special word to Nautauquas, so she started to run and call him back.
She saw him draw near to a sleeping sailor and stoop; but it was too dark for her to see that he had placed his hand over the man's mouth and with the knife in his other hand, had stabbed him to the heart. The sailor's dying struggles were noiseless and when they were over Claw-of-the-Eagle moved softly on to the next.
Sometimes, with Claw-of-the-Eagle as her companion, she would walk through the street of Jamestown, greeting, now with girlish dignity, now with smiles, its inhabitants whose thin faces lighted up at sight of her. She came to symbolize to them the hope in the new world they had all but lost; they rejoiced to see her, not only for her gifts, but for herself.
"And doubtless he is as good an eater and will be hungry when he wakes. Wilt thou not stop at our lodge, Claw-of-the-Eagle, and bid them bring me food for him?" He did as she asked, and shortly after the squaws arrived with earthen dishes filled with bread and meat. They peered eagerly through the crevices till Pocahontas commanded them to be off.
But her relations with Jamestown and its people, though most friendly, were no longer as intimate as they had been when Smith was President, and she went there less and less. One who rejoiced at her home-keeping was Claw-of-the-Eagle.
Argall and the two others of the crew, roused at the outcry, were at their heels. Claw-of-the-Eagle caught Pocahontas in his arms and before she knew what was happening, he had sprung with her into the river. The sailor, who had been but slightly wounded by the young brave's knife, had seized his musket as he ran.
He could not see that a young Indian boy, astounded to catch sight of her in that unaccustomed part of the village, went to meet her. "Is Wansutis by her hearth?" asked Pocahontas. "She is," Claw-of-the-Eagle replied, and walked on beside her with no further word. Pocahontas's heart was beating a little faster than usual.
She shall listen to it and follow me to my lodge." Knowing that he was among a friendly allied tribe, Claw-of-the-Eagle strode along as openly and as carelessly as he would have done at Werowocomoco or Powhata. Yet suddenly, like a deer that scents a bear, he stood still, his nostrils quivering; then, slipping behind a tree, he notched an arrow to his bow.
There was something sinister to Pocahontas in the silence; she began to divine that it was not mere curiosity which was keeping Claw-of-the-Eagle, and yet she dared not go in search of him. The second victim was despatched as easily as the first, and the third, though he awoke before the blow was struck, was unable to avert it.
Claw-of-the-Eagle spoke: "Werowance of the white men, Princess Pocahontas sends me to inform thee that she hath come to visit thee. E'en now she and her maidens await thee at the fort." "She is most welcome," cried Smith, springing up. Then he called out in English: "Come, friends, and help me receive the daughter of Powhatan, who did save me at the risk of her own life.
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