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She did not, however, remark on her friend's allusion to herself, but turned the discourse to Mailah's sad prophecy of her own early death, which she knew could only be grounded on one of the wild superstitions of her race. 'Why do you talk of dying, Mailah? she asked. 'You are young and strong; and you may again be happy. Why do you say you will leave your child, and go to the land of spirits?
One moment Oriana urged her horse again to its swiftest pace, as if in obedience to her husband's command the next, she was at Mailah's side, holding her infant in one arm, white with the other she guided and controlled the terrified animal on which she rode.
Oriana snatched her now smiling boy from Mailah's arms, and embraced him with a fervency and emotion that showed how little she had hoped to see his face again. But her own happy and grateful feelings were painfully interrupted by her friend's exclamation of agony 'Where is my Lincoya? she cried. 'Did he not follow with you?
Mailah's light form soon disappeared in the wood, and it was not long ere she reached the camp, and hastened to the tent of Tisquantum, who, on that day, had not joined the hunting party.
And that night of watchfulness did not pass unprofitably to Mailah's spirit. But where was Lincoya? Where was the youth whose mother mourned him as dead? He was safe amid the top most boughs of a lonely tree, that now stood scorched and leafless in the midst of the smoldering plain, several miles from the safe retreat that had been gained by his friends.
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