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"Dat good talk for young squaw's ears," returned the Chippewa, a little contemptuously as to manner; though his real respect for the bee-hunter, of whose prowess he had so lately been a witness, kept him a little within bounds "but it bess not take nobody in. What Injin say to squaw, he do what pale-face say, he no do."
"You said that you had come a long trail?" he said, regarding the Indian with a sharp scrutiny. "Red Fox come far with feet of deer. He have story for ear of pale-face brothers." The boys started at the remark, while Alf repeated "A story?" "From the white men to their papooses." This was news indeed; but the unexpected announcement disarmed suspicion for the moment.
"This sounds very well, Nick," interrupted the captain, "though you will excuse me if I say it is going a little too far. It seems impossible that you should know that the print of the foot was that of my son. How could you be certain of this?" "How could, eh? Who follow trail from house, here, to Hudson river? T'ink Nick blind, and can't see? Tuscarora read his book well as pale-face read bible."
"Stoop, Pale-face of a Texan, and look with thy eyes open; be honest if thou canst, and confess that thou knowest by thine own experience that this deed is that of white men. What Comanche ever scalped women and children? Stoop, I say, and behold a shame on thy colour and race a race of wolves, preying upon each other; a race of jaguars, killing the female after having forced her stoop and see.
A moment of silence, then: "Me Indian; no pale-face name." Torrance rushed from the bedroom. "Is that the Indian? Good Heavens! The trestle the trestle!" He had thrown wide the front door and gone before they could interfere. A hail of bullets came through. Keener eyes among the trees picked out Torrance's running bulk, but their eyes were keener than their aim.
"I'm glad it has no name," resumed Deerslayer, "or at least, no pale-face name; for their christenings always foretell waste and destruction. No doubt, howsoever, the red-skins have their modes of knowing it, and the hunters and trappers, too; they are likely to call the place by something reasonable and resembling."
"It is well!" exclaimed Ohquamehud, a glow of admiration, at the courage with which Holden met his fate, flashing in spite of himself across his countenance, and which he vainly tried to conceal. "The dog of a pale-face is tired of his life, and will thank Ohquamehud for sending him to the spirits of his fathers." So saying, he raised the rifle to his shoulder and fired.
Following the startling shock against the door came a voice from the outside. The words were in broken English, and were uttered by the Sioux warrior that had made the vain effort to drive the structure inward. "Open door open door, brudder." "I will not open the door," called back Melville. "Open door Injin won't hurt pale-face come in eat wid him." "You cannot come in; we want no visitors.
The acquiescence that Oriana expressed to the simple but forcible arguments of the pale-face added to his exasperation; and he was also angry, as well as astonished, to perceive that the young Cree, although he was yet unconvinced, was still a willing listener, and an anxious inquirer as to the creed of his white friend.
He once remarked that "if we wish to make any impression upon the pale-face, it is necessary to put on his mask."
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