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FLY WITH ME. 81 | had struck her to the earth. The young warrior clenched his hands, and ground his teeth as he listened. ‘He shall never do so again !” he exclaimed, in tones that were rendered harsh by passion. “You shall fly with me, La-la, and we will soon be far beyond, his reach. He has done me a great wrong to-day. I had collected the bravest of our young men, and was about to lead them on the war- path, when Nip-muck-we took my horses and placed them with his own, and called them his. What could I do? .He is a chief, and I could not say a word... He means to disgrace me, and to make me a squaw where I. have been a warrior. But I will bear it no longer; I will fly to some other tribe, where. I will be free, and where a warrior is not treated as°a child. You shall fly with me, my Star-in-the-grass, and the Fat Bear shall never touch you with his cruel claws again. Are you ready? Shall we go to-night ?” La-la only replied to this earnest appeal. by covering her face with her hands, and bursting into tears. “Speak to me!” implored Kotselo. | “Let us go, and. you will be happy at last, and will carry no more burdens for Nip- muck-we.” : a “‘K otselo may go,” sobbed La-la, as i 1 ait oeeladee of He must go, but La-la must stay.” “Think how he has abused you, ‘what blows he has given you, and follow me where you wil be: loved and treated with kindness,” , Kotselo may go; La-la must, stay,” answered the weeping woman, as she took up her bundle of sticks and walked, to- ward her lodge. The young warrior folded his arms, and looked after her in gloomy silence until she was out of sight. comnicloooks.com