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338 thought what a home it would be to them. From that hour I took my knife and my musket. Six months afterwards, there was not a Frenchman in the province." "What did you do with the children?" "Ah, Senhor, there's a secret. Why, in the wood you will have to pass to-night there's a cave—muleteers will sometimes bring across the line more than custom-house officers think of—and that cave was a safe hiding-place. Well, the good turn it did in concealing those children may balance its other accounts. I took them there—stole to them with provisions whenever I could: they never lived half so well before. You see my Minora's eyes are pretty bright; but for half a year they never saw sunshine." It was much later than Edward had supposed; but still the extreme beauty of the evening induced him to pursue his journey. He mounted again, and departed, with a thousand good wishes and directions as to the right path. He offered no reward for the kindly treatment he had received; but the two children, whose hearts he had won by a little notice, and who now, with all the earnest gratitude of childhood, insisted on showing the best path