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"I am Roya-neh!" said the Grey-Feather. "What wisdom counsels I understand, He who would wear the scaly girdle must first know where the fangs lie buried.... But to hear the Antouhonoran scalp-yelp, and to turn one's back, is very hard, O my friend, Loskiel." The Night-Hawk controlled his youthful features, forcing a merry smile as my eye fell on him. "Koue!" he exclaimed softly.
The Yellow Moth, Tahoontowhee, and the Grey-Feather went out at night on retaliation bent, but returned with neither trophies nor news, save what we all knew, that the Seneca scouts were now swarming like hornets all around us ready to sting to death anyone who strayed out of bounds. On the 18th the entire camp lay dull, patiently expectant of Clinton. He did not come. It rained all night.
Then Boyd gave the signal to halt, and sent forward the Sagamore, the Grey-Feather, and Tahoontowhee to inform the General that we would await the army in this place. The Indians, so coolly taken from my command, had gone ere I came up from the rear to find what Boyd had done. "Are you mad?" I exclaimed, losing my temper, "Do you propose to halt here at the very mouth of the hornet's nest?"
By what unfortunate accident should such a hiding place exist so near!" I said miserably. The Sagamore's stern visage slightly relaxed. "It is no accident, Loskiel. Do you not suppose he knew it was here? Else he had never dared attempt what he did." "The vile Witch-cat has been here many a time," said the Grey-Feather, his ferocious gaze fixed on the cliff. "Is the Mole dead?" I asked.
Behind her trotted in order the Yellow Moth, Tohoontowhee, and lastly the Grey-Feather "Like Father Death herding us all to destruction," whispered Lois in my ear, as I halted while the Sagamore surveyed the trail ahead with cautious eyes. As we moved forward once more, I glanced around at Lois and thought I never had seen such fresh and splendid vigor in any woman.
"You, Sagamore of the Loups," he said, carrying out the metaphor, "are closer to the four-footed people than are we Wyandottes." "That is true," said the Grey-Feather. "My elder brother, the Black-Snake, wears the two-legged hawk." Which, again, if it was meant that way, hinted that the Hawk was an alien clan, and neither recognized nor understood by the Oneida.
"But we must make a night march of it, and I could not endure that infamous creature's company, even if it were safe for us to take him with us." "My brother may remain tranquil. The Grey-Feather and I are watching him. The praying Indian and Tahoontowhee understand also. When we once are certain, the Erie dies."
Does a Christian fail his own kind at the last?" "Loskiel has spoken," said the Mohican gravely. "The Grey-Feather and I will hold the filthy cat." So we went back together across the river, the young Oneida and I; and we hid the Mole deep in the bed of a rotting log, and laid his Testament on his breast over the painted cross, and his weapons beside him.
"They say," continued the Sagamore, "that the Erie priesthood learned from the Nez Perces a strange and barbarous fashion." "What fashion?" asked Grey-Feather, so innocently that I could not determine whether he was playing into the Sagamore's hands. "The fashion of wearing the hair in a short, stiff ridge," said the Mohican. "Has the Black-Snake ever seen it worn that way?"
The Erie's lifeless fist still clutched the painted casse-tete with which he had aimed a silently murderous blow at the Sagamore. Grey-Feather drew the death-maul from the dead warrior's grasp, and handed it to the Siwanois.
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