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COUSIN NELLY. | 59 will return with a force to rescue me, as he told me he would.” “ Wa-al, cousin Nelly, if that’s the way ye take it, I might as well haye held my tongue. To my notion, it looked as if — he was in too big a hurry to git away, to think much about you,” “ He could do nothing -to help me, unaided and alone, and they would have killed him to-morrow. He must know best what ought to be done.” “That's what Beaver said, but he is prejudiced, besides bein’ an Injun; and it’s what you say, but I calkilate you’ve a hankerin’ arter that young feller’s black hair and eyes. You see that I didn’t run away from you, Nelly, though I don’t purtend to be quite as good-lookin’ as he is, but I came right into the den of lions, to do what I can for you.” * “1 thought you were captured and brought here,” nereaay. | answered Ellen, “So I was, a sorter, but you see I wanted to come, sie fixed it up that way, and you know how I’ve pulled the wool over the eyes of these red-skinned critters. Jist you rest easy, cousin Nelly, and trust to home folks, like your own Eben, and you will soon see how I will play the game and git you © safe out of this scrape.” The conversation was here interrupted by the entrance of As-moo-tah, who glared at Eben as if she thought he was get- ting entirely too familiar with the fair captive; but the medi- cine-man exercised his authority as only a physician of | acknowledged standing can do, ordering her about as he chose, until the tea was duly prepared and administered to the chief. Nip-muck-we soon sunk -into a comfortable slumber, and Eben, after directing the hag to give him more of the draught when he should wake, and bidding Ellen good-night, took his cherished harpoon, and walked majestically out of the lodge. He found a crowd of men, women and children waiting to receive and honor him, to whom he reported the favorable con- dition of his patient. Among them were the relatives of the warrior who had fallen by his hand. These forlorn wretches beset him with a doleful clamor, and besought him to raise the slaughtered brave from the dead. ~ comiclbooks.com