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"Darkeye," said Mr Pemberton, while he looked steadfastly into the eyes of the Indian, who returned the look as steadily "Darkeye, do you remember a conversation you had many weeks ago in the trading store at Jasper's House?" "I will only put one other question," said the fur-trader. "Do you know this bullet with the marks of teeth in it?" Darkeye's visage fell at once.
It was therefore a look of genuine surprise that rose to Darkeye's visage, when, the moment he entered the fort, Mr Pemberton seized him by the right arm, and led him into the hall. At first he attempted to seize the handle of his knife, but a glance at the numbers of the white men, and the indifference of his own friends, showed him that his best chance lay in cunning.
Thus, the act which had been done slyly but boastfully before the eyes of a comrade, probably as wicked as himself, became the means whereby Darkeye's guilt was clearly proved. At once a party of his own tribe were directed by their chief to go out in pursuit of the murderer.
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