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He and Pocahontas again went hunting together on the mainland, for the Governor allowed them full liberty to come and go as they pleased, feeling sure that Nautauquas would keep his word not to leave Jamestown until the Powhatan sent back Rolfe and Sparkes. And the day that these returned the two braves set off to join their father at Orapaks.
I can dance without fatigue when he is panting. Yet Nautauquas is to be a great brave and I thou bidst remember to be a squaw. Is it not hard, my father? Why then didst thou give me strong arms and legs and a spirit that will not be still? Do not blame me. Father, because I must laugh and run and play."
The Englishmen were not left alone, however, for during the dancing a number of braves and squaws had come to look on at the ceremony and even more at the audience. Now Nautauquas came forward and greeted Smith. "My father hath just returned. He hurried back when he learned that ye were to visit him. He hath had the guest lodge prepared and awaits your coming there."
"Seek not to anger me with words and I will bear thy bundle to thy wigwam. It is in truth too heavy for thy old bones." The old woman grunted ungraciously as she rose to her feet, then the three, one following the other, moved forward. They were obliged to go slowly, as Wansutis could only hobble along, and Nautauquas was sorry to see that dawn was approaching.
Pocahontas too was on her feet, her head on one side, listening intently. Again came the scream, then Nautauquas loosened his bow, saying: "That is no human cry. It is a wildcat in agony. Let us go and see what aileth it." They ran swiftly towards the point from which the sound had come.
"Matoaka," he cried, stepping from the shadow; "what dost thou here alone at night?" His sister did not scream nor jump at this sudden interruption. She seized her brother's hand and pressed it gently. "It was such a beautiful night, Nautauquas," she replied, "that I could not lie sleeping in the lodge. I come often here."
An hour or so later she beheld in the distance two tall figures approaching, and she sprang ashore from the boat, crying: "Nautauquas! Catanaugh!" as her two brothers hurried to meet her. "Is it indeed our little Matoaka?" asked Nautauquas, "and unharmed and well?" He looked at her critically, as if seeking to discover some great change in her.
"Believe ye not," she concluded, looking eagerly first at one and then the other of her brothers, "that our father will make peace for my sake with the nation to which my brave belongeth?" Catanaugh said nothing, but Nautauquas laid his hand on his sister's arm and looked her in the eyes searchingly: "Art thou happy?" "Yea, Brother, very happy.
I will loose him and bind up his wound if thou wilt cut a strip off thy leggings." "Silly child," he laughed. "A wild beast needs no balsam nor cloths for his wounds. If he were free to drag himself to safety he would lick his hurt till it healed. But he would bite thy hand off shouldst thou attempt to touch him." "Nay, Nautauquas, he would not harm me. See how quiet he will grow."
Again came the cry to guide them, and then there was silence as they ran through the moonlight checkered by the shadows of the trees. Nautauquas stood still suddenly, so suddenly that Pocahontas behind him could not stop quickly enough and fell against him and almost down into a ravine that lay beneath, but Nautauquas caught her on the very brink.
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