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 maiden that had sojourned with the Delawares, and leaving her in the cave, has put himself, like a raging wolf, at the head of his savages. I know not what has troubled his spirit so greatly!"

"He has left her, you say, in the cave!" interrupted Heyward; " 'tis well that we know its situation! May not something be done for her instant relief?"

Uncas looked earnestly at the scout, before he asked—

"What says Hawk-eye?"

"Give me my twenty rifles, and I will turn to the right, along the stream, and passing by the huts of the beaver, will join the Sagamore and the Colonel. You shall then hear the whoop from that quarter; with this wind one may easily send it a mile. Then Uncas do you drive in their front; when they come within range of our pieces, we will give them a blow, that I pledge the good name of an old frontiersman shall make their line bend, like an ashen bow. After which, we will carry their village, and take the woman from the cave; when the affair may be finished with