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- i. “ «- 6a THE PHANTOM CIIIEF. Marie was not long in giving her consent to the pro- posal of Fenton. The flutter of her spirits, in‘eed, searcely left her command of herself; yet she remembered well that-her hand had been extended to the surveyor, and that a pressure and a kiss had had sent a glow to her fore- head, ere the bark was restored to its place. _ It was Fenton's design to put himself cautiously ont of the way, as well of any dogs which might be prowling about the town, as of the human beings whom they guard- ed. He had not proceeded far, when he had felt a hand upon his shoulder, and turning quickly, in the surprise of the moment, he waa confronted by Kishkalwa! A stout blow from Fenton sent the savage staggering backward ; but before any advantage could be taken of this, the sur- -veyor found himself in the grasp of several athletic men, who passed bands about his arms, and effectually secured him in spite of his desperate attempts at resistance. _ Kishkalwa had been hunting the day before, and hada discovered the suryeyor’s trail, which he followed until “foiled by a stratagem which had been resorted to at a siream whose bed and banks for some distance favored concealment, Lying by for many hours in a small crevice of rock, buried in leaves of the preceding antumn, Fenton had avoided the extension of his track beyonl the place where he had covered it; aud it so happened that a party despatched in his pursuit passed beyond the grouni! be- _ fore he quitted his cover. The trail was evidently that of a white man, and its direction when seen, being toward the Ohio, it was presumed that a captive from the upper towns had escaped. No one dreamed of looking for hin within gunshot of the chief council-house of his enemies ; = > ~~ = * at an yet thus he actually Jay for an hour before he ventured to seek the object of his visit. Their residence he had learned before being curried from Chilicothe, and Marie’s prayers had assured him of the portion'of the hut which she was occupying. The sagacity and untiring watchfulness of the In tims 4 2 at times approached the miraculous; yet at others, success of single-hauded attempts upoa Villa gos would ers . ; re. eomichooKercs a. . Ss