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"
Should
we
distrust
the
man
because
his
manners
are
not
our
manners
,
and
that
his
skin
is
dark
?
"
coldly
asked
Cora
.
Alice
hesitated
no
longer
;
but
giving
her
Narragansett
a
smart
cut
of
the
whip
,
she
was
the
first
to
dash
aside
the
slight
branches
of
the
bushes
,
and
to
follow
the
runner
along
the
dark
and
tangled
pathway
.
The
young
man
regarded
the
last
speaker
in
open
admiration
,
and
even
permitted
her
fairer
though
certainly
not
more
beautiful
companion
to
proceed
unattended
,
while
he
sedulously
opened
the
way
himself
for
the
passage
of
her
who
has
been
called
Cora
.
It
would
seem
that
the
domestics
had
been
previously
instructed
;
for
,
instead
of
penetrating
the
thicket
,
they
followed
the
route
of
the
column
;
a
measure
which
Heyward
stated
had
been
dictated
by
the
sagacity
of
their
guide
,
in
order
to
diminish
the
marks
of
their
trail
,
if
,
haply
,
the
Canadian
savages
should
be
lurking
so
far
in
advance
of
their
army
.
For
many
minutes
the
intricacy
of
the
route
admitted
of
no
further
dialogue
;
after
which
they
emerged
from
the
broad
border
of
underbrush
which
grew
along
the
line
of
the
highway
,
and
entered
under
the
high
but
dark
arches
of
the
forest
.
Here
their
progress
was
less
interrupted
,
and
the
instant
the
guide
perceived
that
the
females
could
command
their
steeds
,
he
moved
on
,
at
a
pace
between
a
trot
and
a
walk
,
and
at
a
rate
which
kept
the
sure-footed
and
peculiar
animals
they
rode
,
at
a
fast
yet
easy
amble
.
The
youth
had
turned
to
speak
to
the
dark-eyed
Cora
,
when
the
distant
sound
of
horses
'
hoofs
,
clattering
over
the
roots
of
the
broken
way
in
his
rear
,
caused
him
to
check
his
charger
;
and
,
as
his
companions
drew
their
reins
at
the
same
instant
,
the
whole
party
came
to
a
halt
,
in
order
to
obtain
an
explanation
of
the
unlooked-for
interruption
.
In
a
few
moments
a
colt
was
seen
gliding
,
like
a
fallow-deer
,
among
the
straight
trunks
of
the
pines
;
and
,
in
another
instant
,
the
person
of
the
ungainly
man
described
in
the
preceding
chapter
,
came
into
view
,
with
as
much
rapidity
as
he
could
excite
his
meagre
beast
to
endure
without
coming
to
an
open
rupture
.
Until
now
this
personage
had
escaped
the
observation
of
the
travellers
.
If
he
possessed
the
power
to
arrest
any
wandering
eye
when
exhibiting
the
glories
of
his
altitude
on
foot
,
his
equestrian
graces
were
still
more
likely
to
attract
attention
.
Notwithstanding
a
constant
application
of
his
one
armed
heel
to
the
flanks
of
the
mare
,
the
most
confirmed
gait
that
he
could
establish
was
a
Canterbury
gallop
with
the
hind
legs
,
in
which
those
more
forward
assisted
for
doubtful
moments
,
though
generally
content
to
maintain
a
loping
trot
.
Perhaps
the
rapidity
of
the
changes
from
one
of
these
paces
to
the
other
created
an
optical
illusion
,
which
might
thus
magnify
the
powers
of
the
beast
;
for
it
is
certain
that
Heyward
,
who
possessed
a
true
eye
for
the
merits
of
a
horse
,
was
unable
,
with
his
utmost
ingenuity
,
to
decide
by
what
sort
of
movement
his
pursuer
worked
his
sinuous
way
on
his
footsteps
with
such
persevering
hardihood
.
The
industry
and
movements
of
the
rider
were
not
less
remarkable
than
those
of
the
ridden
.
At
each
change
in
the
evolutions
of
the
latter
,
the
former
raised
his
tall
person
in
the
stirrups
;
producing
,
in
this
manner
,
by
the
undue
elongation
of
his
legs
,
such
sudden
growths
and
diminishings
of
the
stature
,
as
baffled
every
conjecture
that
might
be
made
as
to
his
dimensions
.
If
to
this
be
added
the
fact
that
,
in
consequence
of
the
ex
parte
application
of
the
spur
,
one
side
of
the
mare
appeared
to
journey
faster
than
the
other
;
and
that
the
aggrieved
flank
was
resolutely
indicated
by
unremitted
flourishes
of
a
bushy
tail
,
we
finish
the
picture
of
both
horse
and
man
.
The
frown
which
had
gathered
around
the
handsome
,
open
,
and
manly
brow
of
Heyward
,
gradually
relaxed
,
and
his
lips
curled
into
a
slight
smile
,
as
he
regarded
the
stranger
.
Alice
made
no
very
powerful
effort
to
control
her
merriment
;
and
even
the
dark
,
thoughtful
eye
of
Cora
lighted
with
a
humor
that
,
it
would
seem
,
the
habit
,
rather
than
the
nature
of
its
mistress
repressed
.
"
Seek
you
any
here
?
"
demanded
Heyward
,
when
the
other
had
arrived
sufficiently
nigh
to
abate
his
speed
;
"
I
trust
you
are
no
messenger
of
evil
tidings
?
"
"
Even
so
,
"
replied
the
stranger
,
making
diligent
use
of
his
triangular
castor
,
to
produce
a
circulation
in
the
close
air
of
the
woods
,
and
leaving
his
hearers
in
doubt
to
which
of
the
young
man
's
questions
he
responded
;
when
,
however
,
he
had
cooled
his
face
,
and
recovered
his
breath
,
he
continued
,
"
I
hear
you
are
riding
to
William
Henry
;
as
I
am
journeying
thitherward
myself
,
I
concluded
good
company
would
seem
consistent
to
the
wishes
of
both
parties
.
"
"
You
appear
to
possess
the
privilege
of
a
casting
vote
,
"
returned
Heyward
;
"
we
are
three
,
whilst
you
have
consulted
no
one
but
yourself
.
"
