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 and finds his cabin destroyed, what will he do?"

"He will be sad," answered Augustus, turning his eyes away, "and go with his family farther into the forest, to seek a new hunting ground."

"I shall never see him again," said. Nattie.

"Would you wish to?" the youth asked, quickly.

"The old chief would not have been so bad, if it had not been for his dreadful boy, Torch Eye."

"Did you ever see him?"

"No; but I knew that I was kept for him. You told me once, that you knew Torch Eye. Do you think he will be likely to follow me, if I ever get back to my home?"

The young man did not answer at once, and Nattie added:

"I mean, to try and steal me away again? because his father once told him that the white girl should be his."

"I do not think that Torch Eye will ever do anything to cause you trouble, Nathalie," the