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72 THE MAID OF THE MOUNTAIN. “T defy you all!’ he eried. “I bate you, black-hearted Villain, calling yourself chief of the League. If I could have planted the knife in your heart, I would have died con- tent - Brothers,” said the chief, “ye bave seen and heard. Is this man guilty unto death, or no?” “ He is,” cried the band, as, WER Aae: Glee, “Then keep your oaths.” Forty daggers gleamed in tle torehlight they clustered about the doomed man. One by one oadiiinendl were red- dened, but, through all, the greatest.care was taken that no weapon should touch a vital part. At last, every blade was ensanguined, and the victim, faint from loss of blood, but showing wonderful fortitude little in keeping with his bearing upon first entering the room, sunk upon one knee and cast an un¢lismeyed glance at the chief. “ Finish your work, fiend,” he said. “ Your power I de- spise, Dae pa ne Eh yeutifetene ch: call ait the eee an God.” ith his pistol in hand, the chief stepped down from the dais on which he had been sitting up to this moment. Some- thing in the unblenching fortitude of the doomed miner touched him. Though showing the white feather at first, when he saw that hope was gone,,he met his fate like a man. The chief pitied him. What of that? | Eujolras pitied the Sergeant of Artillery, and yet he shot him. His words are immortal. “ We must do what we meu EF “ Have TOC, ARY- EPCS ?” . «Nothing to way”. vies ‘Tender Sranvantaanniag, wiliealg: Popes 7 “ Yes. I summon you to meet me in my place before two suns sball rise and set.” — The chief raised his pistol and placed.it-to theear-of: the traitor. All turned away their heads. Then followed the report, and the outlaws turned. to behold the body of Conway stretched upon the stone floor. The'chief put up the pistol, and said, in a tone of triumph : ik dees? conmicldooks.com