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When he had done speaking, the young men tore the stakes from the earth and threw them into a thicket, while the women plucked apart the newly kindled fire and flung the brands into a little near-by stream, where they went out in a cloud of hissing steam. I turned to the Indian who had wrought this miracle. "Art sure it is not a dream, Nantauquas?" I said.
You are wiser and stronger than we, but your strength and wisdom help us not: they press us down from men to children; they are weights upon the head and shoulders of a babe to keep him under stature. Ill gifts have you brought us, evil have you wrought us" "Not to you, Nantauquas!" I cried, stung into speech. He turned his eyes upon me. "Nantauquas is the war chief of his tribe.
"The forest is wide, and there are many trails through it. Nantauquas looked for that of the werowance of the Paspaheghs, but found it not. He had no time to waste upon a white man." He gathered his otterskin mantle about him and prepared to depart. I rose and gave him my hand, for I thoroughly liked him, and in the past he had made me his debtor.
We will give to this one what fuel we choose, and to-night Nantauquas may look for the bones of the white men!" He ended, and a great clamor arose. The Paspaheghs would have cast themselves upon us again but for a sudden action of the young chief, who had stood motionless, with raised head and unmoved face, during the werowance's bitter speech.
There had been some talk of a public censure, but it died away. The pasty and sack disposed of, I turned in my seat and spoke to Diccon: "I looked for Master Rolfe to-day. Have you heard aught of him?" "No," he answered. As he spoke, the door was opened and the gaoler put in his head. "A messenger from Master Rolfe, captain." He drew back, and the Indian Nantauquas entered the room.
"This is Nantauquas' friend, and so the friend of all the tribes that called Powhatan 'father. The fire is not for him nor for his servant; keep it for the Monacans and for the dogs of the Long House! The calumet is for the friend of Nantauquas, and the dance of the maidens, the noblest buck and the best of the weirs" There was a surging forward of the Indians, and a fierce murmur of dissent.
When they had joined themselves to the throng in the firelight the clamor became deafening. Some one piled on more logs, and the place grew light as day. Opechancanough was not there, nor Nantauquas. Diccon and I watched that uncouth spectacle, that Virginian masque, as we had watched many another one, with disgust and weariness. It would last, we knew, for the better part of the night.
The werowance, standing out from the throng, lifted his voice. "There was a time," he cried, "when Nantauquas was the panther crouched upon the bough above the leader of the herd; now Nantauquas is a tame panther and rolls at the white men's feet!
"Go!" he said at last. "If you die not in the woods, if you see again the man whom I called my brother and teacher, tell him. .. tell him nothing! Go!" "Come with us," urged Diccon gruffly. "We English will make a place for you among us" and got no further, for I turned upon him with a stern command for silence. "I ask of you no such thing, Nantauquas," I said. "Come against us, if you will.
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