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"We dare not," said Seguin; "their dogs would find the blood. It might betray us." "I can procure one without letting a drop," rejoined a Mexican hunter. "How?" inquired several in a breath. The man pointed to his lasso. "But your tracks; you would make deep footmarks in the struggle?" "We can blind them, captain," rejoined the man. "You may try, then," assented the chief.
'In what language do your Voices speak? asked he. 'In a better language than yours, said Joan, and the bishops smiled at the country quip. 'We may not believe in you, said Seguin, 'unless you show us a sign. 'I did not come to Poictiers to work miracles, said Joan; 'take me to Orleans, and I shall show you the signs that I am sent to do. And show them she did.
"There is a train at four o'clock, I think," said he; "let us make haste, for it would annoy us tremendously to miss it, would it not, Seguin?" So saying, he gave him a gay, meaning glance. Then, having drunk some wine and feeling warmed and livelier, they began to express astonishment at their surroundings.
"What! are you left all alone?" exclaimed Mathieu on perceiving the young couple seated side by side on a little couch in the big room on the first floor, which Seguin had once called his "cabinet." "Why, yes, we are alone in the house," Andree answered with a charming laugh. "We are very pleased at it."
He declares that to make the country prosperous every married couple ought to have four children." "Four children! He's mad!" cried Seguin. And again with the greatest freedom of language he brought forward his pet theories. There was a world of meaning in his wife's laughter while Celeste stood there unmoved and the children listened without understanding.
They have been disturbed and frightened by the unwonted intrusion. We, too, are frightened, for we hear the dreaded rattle of the crotalus! The men leap from the ground, and strike at them with the butts of their rifles. They crush many of them on the stone pavement. There are shouts and confusion. We suffer from the exhalations of the charcoal. We shall be stifled. Where is Seguin?
It was a murmur of satisfaction. They had been under the full belief that their town was destroyed and their women massacred; and the words of Seguin, therefore produced a singular effect. We could hear joyful exclamations and phrases interchanged among the warriors. Silence was again restored, and Seguin continued "We see that you have been in our country. You have made captives as well as we.
They were still at a great distance, but the practised eyes of the hunters knew them at a glance. They were horsemen; they were Indians; they were our pursuers, the Navajoes! They were riding at full gallop, and strung over the prairie like hounds upon a run. In a twinkling they would be on us. "Yonder!" cried Seguin, "yonder are scalps enough to satisfy you; but let us see to our own.
The woods, the rocks, the streams had no secrets for him; he understood all their murmurs and their silence he knew the habits of every bird and beast of these forests and the whereabouts of every large trout in his clear cold hole. But it is of no use to describe Père Séguin; to know him you must hunt with him, and that pretty often, too as I have done from my earliest youth.
There was a raised platform, upon which a warrior and maiden represented Montezuma and his queen, and around these the girls danced and chanted. The ceremony ended by the dancers kneeling in front, in a grand semicircle. I saw that the occupants of the throne were Dacoma and Adele. I fancied that the girl looked sad. "Poor Seguin!" thought I: "there is none to protect her now.
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