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" The sound of your firing was now heard coming in this direction, and the wretch, seizing me in his arms, bore me to the place in there where you found me. The Kewanie also carried the bodies to the same place.
" I at once understood what I had to expect from this fellow, for his eyes told that too plainly to be mistaken. The horses were now brought round, and are yet concealed in these ruins, or in the motts yonder.
" I made an appeal to the Kewanie, whom I knew well, when the two returned. Though he was a most ruthless wretch, and a great friend of the chief I had killed, he was touched by it; and •when Larry made his purpose evident, he gave him sternly to understand, by gestures, that he would protect me.
"The libidinous monster raged and threatened in vain; the warrior was firm.
" When I heard you going by, I screamed with all the power of my lungs, in the hope that you might hoar and be arrested by my voice.
" The brute had now become so excited that he forgot every thing, and, after various attempts to stifle my cries with his hands, he at last tore away a portion of my garment, and bound it about my head. This was a precaution as necessary to the safety of the Kewanie as his own, therefore there was no interference on his part. But the brutal fiend knew that he would interpose as soon as you were safely past.
"He was too much excited to know that you had stopped, and now you know all the rest. He shot the Kewanie to get rid of him, just as you shot him. It is unnecessary for me to tell you how hideously loathsome all the details of that infernal scene are to me!"
"Yes, yes ! it has happily passed now. We will not dwell on it again. But you have left Master Albert in a pleasant predicament !   He has, no doubt, by this time, experienced something of