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"Magua is a great chief!" returned the exulting savage, "will the dark-hair go to his tribe?" "Never! strike if thou wilt, and complete thy revenge." He hesitated a moment, and then catching the light and senseless form of Alice in his arms, the subtle Indian moved swiftly across the plain toward the woods.
"See!" said Uncas, pointing north and south, at the evident marks of the broad trail on either side of him: "the dark-hair has gone towards the frost." "Hound never ran on a more beautiful scent," responded the scout, dashing forward, at once, on the indicated route; "we are favored, greatly favored, and can follow with high noses.
Without attending to this sudden change in the other's humor, the scout after musing a moment continued: "There is no woman in this wilderness could leave such a print as that, but the dark-hair or her sister. We know that the first has been here, but where are the signs of the other? Let us push deeper on the trail, and if nothing offers, we must go back to the plain and strike another scent.
The trapper laughed in his silent fashion, and muttered a few words to himself before he addressed the chief "Let the Dahcotah open his ears very wide," he said 'that big words may have room to enter. His friend the Big-knife comes with an empty hand, and he says that the Teton must fill it." "Wagh! Mahtoree is a rich chief. He is master of the prairies." "He must give the dark-hair."
See, the heel has hardly touched the ground; and there the dark-hair has made a little jump, from root to root. No, no; my knowledge for it, neither of them was nigh fainting, hereaway. Now, the singer was beginning to be footsore and leg-weary, as is plain by his trail.
Chingachgook complied; and after finishing his short examination, he arose, and with a quiet demeanor, he merely pronounced the word: "Magua!" "Ay, 'tis a settled thing; here, then, have passed the dark-hair and Magua." "And not Alice?" demanded Heyward. "Of her we have not yet seen the signs," returned the scout, looking closely around at the trees, the bushes and the ground. "What have we there?
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