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Updated: June 24, 2025
The keen eyes and depressed brows, he thought, might belong to some devil re-incarnated, whilst the eagle-beaked nose and thin-compressed lips denoted, to his distorted fancy, a sanguinary cruelty. At the mention of his name this forbidding apparition flashed a vengeful look at the speaker, and a half smile of utter disdain flickered unnoticed around the corners of his mouth.
A cunning chief, Black Hoof, who could boast that he had bathed his feet in the salt water, had led them safely back more than twenty years before, and now this same Black Hoof sat here in the council house of the Wyandots, old and wrinkled, but keen of eye, eagle-beaked, and as shrewd and daring as ever, the man who had led in an almost unknown border exploit, as dangerous and romantic as the Retreat of the Ten Thousand.
To drop even an inch or two was certain death: for he would land on a slope almost sheer; and the impetus must carry him down down down.... "Sir!" he gasped. A face flashed over the cliff, eagle-beaked and beautiful. A young man knelt above him. "Hullo!" he said in voice of quiet amusement, peering down at the boy beneath him. "May I ask what you are doing here?"
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