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If he could, miladi would be bright and gay again, and we would dance and sing, and have merry times. If you died I should want to die, too." He was touched by the child's simple devotion. "I am not going to die. Your Madawando told me I should live to be very old. There were some curious lines in my hand." "I am so glad," she said simply.
The two Récollet priests were kindness and devotion personified, and they said prayers every hour in their rude little chapel, where a candle was kept burning before the altar. They frowned severely on what they termed the mummeries of Madawando. Even the Indian converts, and they were few enough, lapsed into charms and incantations in times of trouble.
"We are alike in that," he made answer. He saw Wanamee presently. "She goes from one dying fit to another. Madawando brings her back. But if he is dead, M'sieu, why should they not let her join him?" Would she be happier in that great unknown land with him. What was there here for her? And some way he felt in part responsible. He had risked his life to save Destournier's property.
"Why do you think of that?" "Because I love you best of everybody. The Governor is very nice, but he is in France so much and you are here. Then we can climb rocks together and sit in the forests and hear the trees talk. I go to M. Giffard's grave and say over the spells Madawando taught me, to bring him back, but he does not come.
"Yes, he has been killed by the cruel savages. But we have brought home his body. Who is with her?" "Wanamee and Madawando, who is saying charms over her. She is the medicine woman who brought back the Gaudrion baby when he was dead. Oh, can you not make her bring back M. Giffard? Miladi will surely die of grief. Couldn't they put some one in his place?
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