Part 20 (2/2)

There was a prodigious slaughter, a mad scene of butchery, in which the Indians exulted like fiends Late in the afternoon they returned to camp, stained with blood and loaded with the spoils of the chase

Snoquale bear, and its claws, newly severed and bleeding, were added to his already ample necklace of similar trophies

Cecil remained in the almost deserted caone out to join in the hunt

Missionary as utterly impossible that day Wallulah and the problehts His , searched and analyzed the question upon every side

Should he tell Multno his unfitness to be the husband of the gentle Wallulah?

To the stern war-chief that very cruelty would be an argument in Snoqualmie's favor Should he himself become a suitor for her hand? He knew full well that Multnomah would reject him with disdain; or, were he to consent, it would involve the Willahty and vindictive Cayuse Finally, should he attempt to fly with her to some other land? Impossible All the tribes of the northere held in the iron grip of Multnoood he had done aeneration to generation, would be all destroyed if it were told ae frohter And had he a right to love any one?--had he a right to love at all? God had sent hi the Indians; was it not wicked for hiht or to the left till that as done?

Aht in vain for soe and brooded over these things till he seeht up almost to madness, till his forrew sharp and deadly

Then again, trying to shake it off, he went out a the few Indians ere left in the camp and attelow and tenderness was gone fro failed hier a saintly apostle to the Indians; he was only a human lover, torn by stormy human doubts and fears

Even the Indians felt that soe had coer responded to his eloquence; they felt soone fro

He realized that the energy and concentration of his character was gone, that a girl's beauty had drawn him aside froo and see her I will, without letting her know that I love her, give her to understand my position and her own She shall see how iht to each other And I shall urge her to cling to God and walk in the path he has appointed for her, while I go on inand took the path to Wallulah's home

Some distance from the enca Willa him to the river, dohich a canoe was to waft the body and the mourners to the nearest _mimaluse_ island The corpse athed in skins and tied around with thongs; the father bore it on his shoulder, for the dead had been but a slender lad Behind them came the mother and a few Indian women As they passed, the father chanted a rude lao away and leave our am empty?

You were not weak nor sickly, and your life was young Why did you go?

Oh, Mox-mox, dead, dead, dead!”

Then the women took up the doleful refrain,--

”Oh, Mox-ain,--

”Oh, Mox-mox, the sun arm and food was plenty, yet you went away; and e reach out for you, you are not there Oh Mox-ain,--

”Oh, Mox-mox, dead, dead, dead!”

And so it went on, till they were e Down on some _mimaluse_ island or rocky point, they would stretch the corpse out in a canoe, with the bow and arrows and fishi+ng spear used in life beside it; then turn over it another canoe like a cover, and so leave the dead to his long sleep

The sight gave an added bitterness to Cecil's ht, ”life is so short,--a shadow fleeting onward to the night,--and love is so sweet! Why not opencoht of consequences to the winds, and gather into my arms the love that is offered olden h that moment ends in death?”