Beadle's Dime Novels No. 153: Mohawk Nat — page 42: what you’re looking at

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44 MOHAWK NAT. “ True, father,” said the Frenchman. “They little dream that I am so near them in their towns. I have learned them how to fear me; and before I return to Montreal I will give them cause to remember the name I bear.” “They know it now,” said the elder Jesuit. “ Think what a glorious work you are doing—you, who are upholding the cause of the true church and a Christian king. You have cause to be proud.” “Thanks, father,” said the fanatic. “I will have greater cause for pride. But, now I think of it, Barbed Arrow, you were in danger from these fellows who came to hunt for our runaway warriors.” “ They took me and would have slain me; but the strong young chief saved ih “ How ®” 4 Barbed Arrow related his adventure by the river, and the moe he had been enabled to make. “Then this fellow we took to-day is the one who threat- ened you?” “ Yes.” oir 5 _ “What do you mean to do with him? | “TI will teach him what it is to insult a great chief of the Hurons. He shall repent it when he is in the ae “ You don’t mean to try that?” “Why not?” “ Suit yourself; only ['d rather not be around nae it is done, ee ee ee oe 2 wen be off.” ; _ “* My brother will ere sichd As for this Yengee with the white heed, I have no pity for him; he is a dog.” — The countenance of the young chief was distorted by an- ger, and he cast an angry glance toward a small pine which grew out of a fissure of the rock a few feet away: Follow- ing the direction of his’ glance, Lewis saw the object of his search, Mohawk Nat, bound to the tree, and whistling as un- concernedly as he might have done beside his camp-fire. Watching his bound comrade, Lewis could not help admir- ing ‘his bearing, cool and self-possessed as if no threat- éned. All the while, however, Nat’s keen eyes took in every motion of his captors, and his friend could see that any Commiclooolks.conn