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 nance was far too powerful to be entirely concealed; "our duty here is ended; let us depart."

Heyward gladly obeyed a summons that took them from a spot, where, each instant, he felt his self-controul was about to desert him. While his companions were mounting, however, he found time to press the hand of the scout, and to repeat the terms of an engagement they had made, to meet again, within the posts of the British army. Then gladly throwing himself into the saddle, he spurred his charger to the side of the litter, whence low and stifled sobs alone announced the presence of Alice. In this manner, the head of Munro again dropping on his bosom, with Heyward and David following in sorrowing silence, and attended by the Aide of Montcalm, with his guard, all the white men, with the exception of Hawk-eye, passed from before the eyes of the Delaware, and were soon buried in the vast forests of that region.

But the tie which, through their common calamity, had united the feelings of these