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 "And some?" she asked, "have married English husbands?"

"Aye, and French husbands and men from Scotland and from Ireland," Lachlan replied; and he told her then of how the Frenchman, Captain Tourville, had married a Muskogee princess of the Family of Wind, the most exalted of the Muskogee clans; of their beautiful daughter, Sehoy Tourville, herself a princess; and of the Scotsman who came to Tallasee and fell in love with Sehoy and married her and became High Chief or King of the Muskogee Confederacy.

"That Scotsman," he concluded, "is my father, and Sehoy is my mother, and she is as beautiful now as she was then."

"Yes," Jolie replied absently, "all this I know. Almayne told me these things and of how you are the Prince of your nation, and of how you are going back to your people now and will some day become their King."

He nodded, smiling. Presently she turned her face to him again.

"What know you?" she asked carelessly, "of Chief Concha's daughter? Is she one of those slim, tall ones who are so beautiful?"

She waited, her eyes searching his face eagerly; and when no answer came, she leaned towards him.

"You will recall," she said impatiently, "that when you sat the first time in Falcon's cabin, he