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From that point the Nest could be watched, and any favourable chance improved. Thither, then, Susquesus was told to proceed; though it was not thought advisable to fetter one so shrewd, with too many instructions. Several of us accompanied the Onondago to the gate, and saw him moving across the fields, towards the wood, in his usual loping trot.
Robert was startled. So, the Onondago was watching, after all. He might have known that nothing would escape his attention. "I saw Garay, the spy," he replied in the same tone. "And the man at the little table was the captain of the slave ship on which you were taken?" "The same." "It bodes ill, Dagaeoga. You must watch." "I will, Tayoga."
At length the Onondago reappeared; and, to our great joy, a group followed him, in which were both the prisoners. The last were bound, but able to walk. This party might have contained a dozen of the enemy, all of whom were armed. It moved slowly out of the ravine, and ascended to the fields that were on a level with the house, halting when about four hundred yards from us.
The Onondago never would work, however, and I have heard my father say, great was his happiness when he found he was to pass the remainder of his days in otium cum dignitate, and without the necessity of making baskets." "Yop is looking at us; had we not better go up at once and speak to them?" "Yop may stare the most openly, but my life on it the Indian sees twice as much.
Niggers gettin' scarce, dey tells me, now-a-days, in dis world!" "Injins, too, I dinks; dere ist no more redskins might be blenty." The manner in which the Onondago raised his figure, and the look he fastened on my uncle, were both fine and startling. As yet he had said nothing beyond the salutation; but I could see he now intended to speak.
My uncle had turned away, I dare say to conceal the tears that started to his eyes, and Jaaf followed towards the door of the hut, whither my uncle moved, in order to do the honours of the place. This left me quite alone with the Indian. "Why no kiss face of grandmodder?" asked the Onondago, coolly and quietly. Had a clap of thunder broken over my head, I could not have been more astonished!
So great, however, was uncle Chainbearer's reputation for integrity, that such an opinion was sufficient to procure for the Onondago the fullest confidence of the whole connection, and the experience of four-score years and ten had proved that this confidence was well placed.
"Vell I dought I dit see an olt Injin in a hut up yonder ast by der woots!" put in my uncle, innocently. "Oh! that is Susquesus, an Onondago; he is a true Injin, and a gentleman; but we have a parcel of the mock gentry about, who are a pest and an eye-sore to every honest man in the country. Half on 'em are nothing but thieves in mock Injin dresses.
For a moment or more, I could only gaze on the wonderful picture presented by the strong contrast between the golden hill-tops and their shadowed sides the promises of day and the vestiges of night. But the Onondago was too much engrossed with his own feelings, to suffer me long to disregard what he conceived to be the principal point of interest.
Our march was too swift and earnest to admit of discourse. The Onondago had admonished me to make as little noise as possible; and, between the anxiety I felt, and the care taken to comply, there was, indeed, but little opportunity for conversing.
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