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The
high-spirited
Duncan
felt
a
powerful
impulse
of
admiration
and
pity
towards
the
former
,
though
no
opportunity
could
offer
to
exhibit
his
generous
emotions
.
He
watched
his
slightest
movement
,
however
,
with
eager
eyes
;
and
as
he
traced
the
fine
outline
of
his
admirably
proportioned
and
active
frame
,
he
endeavored
to
persuade
himself
,
that
if
the
powers
of
man
,
seconded
by
such
noble
resolution
,
could
bear
one
harmless
through
so
severe
a
trial
,
the
youthful
captive
before
him
might
hope
for
success
in
the
hazardous
race
he
was
about
to
run
.
Insensibly
the
young
man
drew
nigher
to
the
swarthy
lines
of
the
Hurons
,
and
scarcely
breathed
,
so
intense
became
his
interest
in
the
spectacle
.
Just
then
the
signal
yell
was
given
,
and
the
momentary
quiet
which
had
preceded
it
was
broken
by
a
burst
of
cries
,
that
far
exceeded
any
before
heard
.
The
most
abject
of
the
two
victims
continued
motionless
;
but
the
other
bounded
from
the
place
at
the
cry
,
with
the
activity
and
swiftness
of
a
deer
.
Instead
of
rushing
through
the
hostile
lines
,
as
had
been
expected
,
he
just
entered
the
dangerous
defile
,
and
before
time
was
given
for
a
single
blow
,
turned
short
,
and
leaping
the
heads
of
a
row
of
children
,
he
gained
at
once
the
exterior
and
safer
side
of
the
formidable
array
.
The
artifice
was
answered
by
a
hundred
voices
raised
in
imprecations
;
and
the
whole
of
the
excited
multitude
broke
from
their
order
,
and
spread
themselves
about
the
place
in
wild
confusion
.
A
dozen
blazing
piles
now
shed
their
lurid
brightness
on
the
place
,
which
resembled
some
unhallowed
and
supernatural
arena
,
in
which
malicious
demons
had
assembled
to
act
their
bloody
and
lawless
rites
.
The
forms
in
the
background
looked
like
unearthly
beings
,
gliding
before
the
eye
,
and
cleaving
the
air
with
frantic
and
unmeaning
gestures
;
while
the
savage
passions
of
such
as
passed
the
flames
,
were
rendered
fearfully
distinct
by
the
gleams
that
shot
athwart
their
inflamed
visages
.
It
will
easily
be
understood
,
that
amid
such
a
concourse
of
vindictive
enemies
,
no
breathing
time
was
allowed
the
fugitive
.
There
was
a
single
moment
when
it
seemed
as
if
he
would
have
reached
the
forest
,
but
the
whole
body
of
his
captors
threw
themselves
before
him
,
and
drove
him
back
into
the
centre
of
his
relentless
persecutors
.
Turning
like
a
headed
deer
,
he
shot
,
with
the
swiftness
of
an
arrow
,
through
a
pillar
of
forked
flame
,
and
passing
the
whole
multitude
harmless
,
he
appeared
on
the
opposite
side
of
the
clearing
.
Here
too
he
was
met
and
turned
by
a
few
of
the
older
and
more
subtle
of
the
Hurons
.
Once
more
he
tried
the
throng
,
as
if
seeking
safety
in
its
blindness
,
and
then
several
moments
succeeded
,
during
which
Duncan
believed
the
active
and
courageous
young
stranger
was
lost
.
Nothing
could
be
distinguished
but
a
dark
mass
of
human
forms
tossed
and
involved
in
inexplicable
confusion
.
Arms
,
gleaming
knives
,
and
formidable
clubs
,
appeared
above
them
,
but
the
blows
were
evidently
given
at
random
.
The
awful
effect
was
heightened
by
the
piercing
shrieks
of
the
women
and
the
fierce
yells
of
the
warriors
.
Now
and
then
Duncan
caught
a
glimpse
of
a
light
form
cleaving
the
air
in
some
desperate
bound
,
and
he
rather
hoped
than
believed
that
the
captive
yet
retained
the
command
of
his
astonishing
powers
of
activity
.
Suddenly
the
multitude
rolled
backward
,
and
approached
the
spot
where
he
himself
stood
.
The
heavy
body
in
the
rear
pressed
upon
the
women
and
children
in
front
,
and
bore
them
to
the
earth
.
The
stranger
reappeared
in
the
confusion
.
Human
power
could
not
,
however
,
much
longer
endure
so
severe
a
trial
.
Of
this
the
captive
seemed
conscious
.
Profiting
by
the
momentary
opening
,
he
darted
from
among
the
warriors
,
and
made
a
desperate
,
and
,
what
seemed
to
Duncan
,
a
final
effort
to
gain
the
wood
.
As
if
aware
that
no
danger
was
to
be
apprehended
from
the
young
soldier
,
the
fugitive
nearly
brushed
his
person
in
his
flight
.
A
tall
and
powerful
Huron
,
who
had
husbanded
his
forces
,
pressed
close
upon
his
heels
,
and
with
an
uplifted
arm
menaced
a
fatal
blow
.
Duncan
thrust
forth
a
foot
,
and
the
shock
precipitated
the
eager
savage
headlong
,
many
feet
in
advance
of
his
intended
victim
.
Thought
itself
is
not
quicker
than
was
the
motion
with
which
the
latter
profited
by
the
advantage
;
he
turned
,
gleamed
like
a
meteor
again
before
the
eyes
of
Duncan
,
and
at
the
next
moment
,
when
the
latter
recovered
his
recollection
,
and
gazed
around
in
quest
of
the
captive
,
he
saw
him
quietly
leaning
against
a
small
painted
post
,
which
stood
before
the
door
of
the
principal
lodge
.
Apprehensive
that
the
part
he
had
taken
in
the
escape
might
prove
fatal
to
himself
,
Duncan
left
the
place
without
delay
.
He
followed
the
crowd
,
which
drew
nigh
the
lodges
,
gloomy
and
sullen
,
like
any
other
multitude
that
had
been
disappointed
in
an
execution
.
Curiosity
,
or
perhaps
a
better
feeling
,
induced
him
to
approach
the
stranger
.
He
found
him
,
standing
with
one
arm
cast
about
the
protecting
post
,
and
breathing
thick
and
hard
,
after
his
exertions
,
but
disdaining
to
permit
a
single
sign
of
suffering
to
escape
.
His
person
was
now
protected
by
immemorial
and
sacred
usage
,
until
the
tribe
in
council
had
deliberated
and
determined
on
his
fate
.
It
was
not
difficult
,
however
,
to
foretell
the
result
,
if
any
presage
could
be
drawn
from
the
feelings
of
those
who
crowded
the
place
.
There
was
no
term
of
abuse
known
to
the
Huron
vocabulary
that
the
disappointed
women
did
not
lavishly
expend
on
the
successful
stranger
.
They
flouted
at
his
efforts
,
and
told
him
,
with
bitter
scoffs
,
that
his
feet
were
better
than
his
hands
;
and
that
he
merited
wings
,
while
he
knew
not
the
use
of
an
arrow
or
a
knife
.
To
all
this
the
captive
made
no
reply
;
but
was
content
to
preserve
an
attitude
in
which
dignity
was
singularly
blended
with
disdain
.
Exasperated
as
much
by
his
composure
as
by
his
good-fortune
,
their
words
became
unintelligible
,
and
were
succeeded
by
shrill
,
piercing
yells
.
Just
then
the
crafty
squaw
,
who
had
taken
the
necessary
precaution
to
fire
the
piles
,
made
her
way
through
the
throng
,
and
cleared
a
place
for
herself
in
front
of
the
captive
.
The
squalid
and
withered
person
of
this
hag
might
well
have
obtained
for
her
the
character
of
possessing
more
than
human
cunning
.
Throwing
back
her
light
vestment
,
she
stretched
forth
her
long
skinny
arm
,
in
derision
,
and
using
the
language
of
the
Lenape
,
as
more
intelligible
to
the
subject
of
her
gibes
,
she
commenced
aloud
--
"
Look
you
,
Delaware
!
"
she
said
,
snapping
her
fingers
in
his
face
;
"
your
nation
is
a
race
of
women
,
and
the
hoe
is
better
fitted
to
your
hands
than
the
gun
.
Your
squaws
are
the
mothers
of
deer
;
but
if
a
bear
,
or
a
wild
cat
,
or
a
serpent
were
born
among
you
,
ye
would
flee
.
The
Huron
girls
shall
make
you
petticoats
,
and
we
will
find
you
a
husband
.
"
A
burst
of
savage
laughter
succeeded
this
attack
,
during
which
the
soft
and
musical
merriment
of
the
younger
females
strangely
chimed
with
the
cracked
voice
of
their
older
and
more
malignant
companion
.
But
the
stranger
was
superior
to
all
their
efforts
.
His
head
was
immovable
;
nor
did
he
betray
the
slightest
consciousness
that
any
were
present
,
except
when
his
haughty
eye
rolled
towards
the
dusky
forms
of
the
warriors
,
who
stalked
in
the
background
,
silent
and
sullen
observers
of
the
scene
.
