Part 15 (1/2)

”What is that?” asked the groups around the ca the death-wail for her husband,” was the low reply; and in that way the tribes knew that the sentence had been carried out Many bands were there, of es, but all knehat that death-wail meant the instant it fell upon their ears

Multnomah heard it as he sat in council with his chiefs, and there was so in it that shook even his iron heart; for all the wilder, more superstitious eles,--the war-cry and the death-wail He dise On the way he encountered Toho, as was his wont, under the shadow of the trees

”What think you now, Tohomish, you who love darkness and shadohat think you? Is not the ar? Has it not put down revolt to-day, and held the tribes together?”

The Pine Voice looked at him sorrowfully

”The vision I told in the council has coain The cry of woe I heard far off then is nearer now, and the throng on the death-trail passes thicker and swifter That which covered their faces is lifted, and their faces are the faces of Willa them The time is close at hand”

”Say this before our eneh you are, you die!” said the chief, laying his hand on his to the trees

Every evening at dusk, theof the rebel sachem went out into the woods near the caht that wild, desolate lareat encampment,--a cry that was accusation, defiance, and la the Indians a wo her dead was sacred So, while Multnomah labored and plotted for union by day, that ht And thus the dead liberator was half avenged

BOOK IV

_THE LOVE TALE_

CHAPTER I

THE INDIAN TOWN

The bare ground with hoarie mosse bestrowed Must be their bed, their pilloas unsowed And the frutes of the forrest was their feast

_The Faerie Queene_

Never before had there coospel truth The work of half a lifetiathered together in one encampment, and I can talk with them all, tell them of God, of the beauty of heaven and of the only Way Then, when they disperse, they will carryin every direction, and so it will be scattered throughout all this wild land”

This was the thought that ca after the trial Noas the tiument, persuasion, and enthusiasm to be exerted to the ut in his lodge beside his couch of furs, that God would be with and help hi was the love and tenderness that filled his heart

When the day was a little more advanced, he entered upon his work The ca meal, and the various eun Each tribe or band had pitched its lodges apart, though not far froroup of many encampwams

A precarious and uncertain quiet had succeeded the agitation of the day before Multnoy had awed the malcontents into te freely with one another; though here and there a chief or warrior looked on conte moodily apart, wrapped in his blanket Now and then when a Willa animatedly they would become silent all at once till the representative of the dreaded race was out of hearing, when a storutterals would burst forth; but there were no other indications of hostility

Groups were strolling fro curiously the habits and custoue, precursor of thea means of intercourse Everywhere Cecil found talk, barter, diversion It was a rude caricature of civilization, the picture of society in its infancy, the rough drah which every race passes in its evolution from barbarism

At one place, a hunter froua_ shells to a native of the sea-coast At another, a brave skilled in ork had his stock of bows and arrows spread out before hi on But the taciturn brave sat coolly polishi+ng and staining his arrows as if he were totally unconscious of spectators, until the ical word ”buy” was ain in bow and quiver _versus_ dried berries and ”ickters” that would have done credit to a Yankee