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Our junior ensign, Benjamin Chambers, a smart young dandy, met us at the guard-house, directed Boyd to Captain Simpson's log quarters, and then led the Sagamore inside. "Is this our Moses?" whispered the young ensign in my ear. "Egad, Loskiel, he looks a treacherous devil, in his paint, to lead us to the promised land."
"A man, Loskiel if it be not a deer." A moment and I also saw something moving far below us among the trees. As yet it was only a mere spot in the dim light of the trail, slowly ascending the height of land. Nearer, nearer it came, until at length we could see that it was a man. But no rifle slanted across his shoulder. "He must be one of our own people," I said, puzzled.
"Very well," nodded the General, "but take no more than four men, and Mr. Loskiel and his Indians with you; and report to me at sunrise." I heard him say this; Major Hoops heard him also. So I supposed that Boyd would obey these orders to the letter. When the mounted party had moved away, Boyd and I went back to the fire and lay down on our blankets.
So painfully intent was I on his every low-spoken word that I scarce dared breathe as the story of my mother slowly unfolded. "Guy Johnson and I took the young woman and her child to Edward," he said. "Her name was Marie Loskiel, and she told us that she was the widow of a Scotch fur trader, one Ian Loskiel, of Saint Sacrament."
At this awful blasphemy, the Mohican fairly blanched so that under his paint his skin grew ashy for a moment. The Grey-Feather shouted: "Lying and degraded priest! Mowawak Cannibal of a Sinako Cat! It is Atensi herself who burns with Iuskeha in Biskoonah; and the sacrilegious fires lick your altars!" The Erie laughed horribly: "Where is your fool of a stripling called Loskiel?
And if the gallant fellows hereabout desire a taste of true glory the genuine article why, send them to me, landlord Thomas Boyd, of Derry, Pennsylvania, lieutenant, 6th company of Morgan's or to my comrade here, Mr. Loskiel, ensign in the same corps."
"Then tell me her name, that I may write it to my friend in Albany." "I do not know it," he said quietly. "She never told you?" "Never," he said. "Listen, Loskiel. What I now tell to you with heart all open and my tongue unloosened, is all I know of her. It was in winter that she came to Philipsburgh, all wrapped in her red cloak.
Only the strong character and exceptional man is ever fitted for any other life after the army becomes a closed career to him. I now remarked as much to Boyd, who frowned, seeming to consider the matter for the first time. "Aye," he nodded, "it's true enough, Loskiel.
I lifted her little hand and laid my lips to it, touching the ring. Then she bent timidly and kissed the rough gold circlet where my lips had rested. Somehow, a shaft of sunlight had penetrated the green roof above, and slanted across her hair, so that the lovely contour of her head was delicately edged with light. * "Nene-nea-wen-ne, Lois!" I whispered passionately. * "Nen-ya-wen-ne, O Loskiel!
He rose, and I stood up; and for a moment we looked each other steadily in the eye. Then he smiled faintly, shaking his head: "Not this time, Loskiel," he said in a low voice. "My spectral pilot gives no sign. Death lies beyond the fires of Catharines-town. I know, Loskiel I know."
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