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 man left the ruins and struck into the forest. As he approached the vicinity of the French cabins, where he had listened, unobserved, to the rehearsal of their deed of darkness, he noticed that no lights gleamed from the crevices of the boards, nor were the sounds of revelry borne to his ears. All was gloom and silence around them.

"They can not be sleeping already," he thought, as he bent his steps to the door of the nearest hut.

It was standing open. He entered. No person was visible, but marks of disorder were apparent, as if the inmates had left their abode in haste. He visited the other two cabins. They presented the same appearance.

"What can it mean?" he thought. "Are they yet abroad in the woods, or is there any stir about the burning, which has led to their arrest, or caused them to flee away?"

These thoughts caused him to hasten towards the white settlement at Sibley's Corner. His