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 influence of his son, had entered into alliance with these men to search out the destroyers of the wigwam, and bring them to justice."

"But, admitting all this, I don't see how they can fasten upon you as the guilty ones," said the woman, in a husky whisper; "for no witnesses escaped from the fire to tell of you, and know your faces if they saw you again; and the Yankees can't afford to make arow with all the French hands and drive them off, because they want their help. There," she added, striking the man's arm and pointing in the direction of the ruins, "he has sat down."

"Yes," whispered the man; "and his next move will be towards our huts in the forest. Let us hasten there and arouse our fellows. Depend upon it, he will have a company with him that will overpower us, burn our dwellings, and put us to slaughter. I know well what Indians are when their blood is up."

He started away in the darkness, pulling the