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 be assumed without embarrassment. "Oh! not alone, surely, Magua, for you know that we are with him."

"Then le Renard Subtil will go," returned the runner, coolly raising his little wallet from the place where it had lain at his feet; "and the pale faces will see none but their own colour."

"Go! Whom call you le Renard?"

" 'Tis the name his Canada fathers have given to Magua," returned the runner, with an air that manifested his pride at the distinction, though probably quite ignorant of the character conveyed by the appellation. "Night is the same as day to le Subtil, when Munro waits for him."

"And what account will le Renard give the chief of William Henry concerning his daughters? Will he dare to tell the hot-blooded Scotsman that his children are left without a guide, though Magua promised to be one?"

"The grayhead has a loud voice, and a long arm, but will le Renard hear him or feel him in the woods?" returned the wary runner.