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THURSDAY, DECEMB,ER 29, 1932,
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Johnson.
(Continued ,from last week.)
"Your friend Would be obliged for
the warning," 'I replied.
We .walked a little further. "And I
think," he said, "that I should inform
this purely hypothetical, friend of
mine that the Italian and his patron
Thad their heads mighty close 'together
last night."
"Last night?"
"Ay, last night. 4 went to drink
with my ford, and so broke uptheir
tete-a-tete. My lord was .boisterous
in his cups and not oversecret. He
dropped• some hints"—He broke off
to indulge in one of his endless silent
laughs, "'I don't know .why I tell
you this, Captain ,Percy. 'I am on the
other side, you know,—'quite on ,the
other side. But now I bethink me,
I am only telling you what I should
tell you were I upon your side.
There's no harm in that 'I hope, no
disloyalty to my Lord Carnal's in-
terests 'which happen to be my inter-
ests?"
iI made no answer. 'I gave him
credit both for his ignorance of the
very ,hornbrook of honor and for his
large share of the milk of human
kindness.
"My lord grows restive," he said,
when we had gone a little further.
"The Francis and 'John, coming in
yesterday, brought court news. Out
of sight, out of mind. IBuckingh'ann
is making hay while the sun shines.
'Useth angel water for his complex-
ion, sleepeth in a medicated mask
such as the Valois used, and is grown
handsomer than ever; changeth the
fashion of his clothes thrice a week,
which mightily pleaseth his Majesty.
Whoops on the Spanish match, too,
and, wonderful past all whooping,
from the prince's detestation hath be
come his bosom friend. :Small wond-
er if my Lord Carnal thinks it's time
he was 'back at Whitehall."
"Let him go, then,",.I said. "There's
his ship that brought him here."
"Ay, there's his ship," rejoined
Master Pory. "A few weeks more
and the Due Return will be here with
the Company's commands. D'ye
think, Captain Percy, that there's the
slightest doubt as to their tenor?"
"Then my lord has but to possess
his soul with patience and wait for
the Due Return. No doubt he'll do
so"
"No doubt he'll do so," Q echoed.
By this time we had reached the
(Secretary's own doon "Fortune
favor you with the Paspaheghs!" he
said, with another mighty yawn. "As
for me, )I'll to bed.Do you ever dream.
Captain Percy? I don't; mine is too
good a conscience. But if I did, I
s'hou'ld dream of an I'tal'ian doctor."
IThe door shut upon his red face and
bright eyes. I walked rapidly on clown
the street to the minister's 'house. The
light was very pale as yet, and house
• and garden lay beneath a .veil of .mist.
No one was stirring. II went through.
the gray wet paths to the stable and
roused Diccon.
"Saddle 'Black Balmoral quickly," I
ordered. "'There's trouble with the
l'aslpaheghs, and I am off with Mas-
ter Rolfe to settle it."
"Am 'I' to go with you?" he asked. feasts there still. The Ohicka'hominies
iI ,shook my head. "'We have a dozen
men. There's no need of. More."
I loft 'him busy with .the horse, and
went to the house. In the hall I found
the negress strewing the floor with
fresh rushes, and asked , her if ' her
mistress yet slept. In her soft half
English, half Spanish, she answered in
the affirmative. I went to my own
room 'and armed myself; then ran up-
stairs to the comfortable ch'amlber
where abode 'Master Jeremy Spar-
row, surrounded by luxuries whichhis
soul contemned, He was not there. At
the foot Of the stair I was met by
IGioodlwife' Allen. 'The minister twas.
called an hour ago, sir," she announc-
ed, 'There's a man dying of the fewer
at Archer's Hope, and they sent a
boat )for him, IHe won't be back until
Blank L'amoral was saddled, and Talc -
con held the stirrup for me to mount.
"Good luck with the vermin, sir!"
he said. ""I w?s'h I were going, .too."
Iilis tone was sullen, yet wistful, 3
knew that he loved danger as I loved
it, and a sudden remembrance of the
dangers we had•, faced together
brought us hearer to •eaoh other than
we had been for many is day.
'7 dont Make you," I evlplained, "be-
cause I have need of you here. Master
Sparrow :has gone to watch, beside a
dying man, and will not be back for
hours. As for myself, there's no telling
haw long I may be kept. Until. I
come you are to guard house and gar-
den well. You know what I mean.
Your mistress is to be m'ol'ested by
no one."
"Very well, sir."
"One 'thing more. 'There •was some
talk yesterday of my taking her ac-
ross the neck to the forest. When she
awakes, tell her from me that I am
sorry for her to lose her pleasure, but
that now she could not go even were
I here to take 'her."
"There's no danger from the Pas-
paheghs there," he muttered.
"The'Paspa'heghs happen not to be
my only foes," I said curtly. "Do as I
bid you without remark. Tell her that
I have good reasons for desiring her
to remain within doors until my re-
turn. On no account whatever is she
to venture without the garden."
S gathered up the reins, and he
stood back from the horse's head.
When I had gone a few paces gI drew
rein, and, turning in my saddle, spoke
to hint across the dew -drenched grass.
"This is a trust, Diccon," I said.
The red came into his tanned face.
He raised his hand and m'ade.our old
military salute. "I understand it so,
my captain," he answered, and I rode
away satisfied,
CHAPTER X1ffll.
lAn hour's ride brought us to the
block house standing within the for-
est, midway between the .white .plan-
tations at. Paspa'hegh and the village
of the tribe.We found it well garris-
oned, spies out, and the men inclined'
to make light of the black paint and',
the seething village.
;Amongst them was 'Ohanco the
Christian. I called him to me, and we
listened to his report with growing
perturbation. "Thirty warriors!" 'I
said, when he had •finished. "And they
are painted yellowas well as black,
and have dashed their cheeks with
puccoron: it is serious, 'then! And the
war dan'ce is toward! If we are to pac-
ify this 'hornet's nest, it's high time
we set about it. Gentlemen of the
'block house, we are but twelve, and
they may beat us .back, in which case
those that are iedt of us will fight it
out with you here. Watch for us,
therefore, and 'have - a . sally party
ready. Forward, men 1"
"One moment, Captain !Percy," said
,Rolfe. '"C'h'anco, where's the Emper-
or?"
"Five suns ago he was with the
priests at Uttamussac," answered the
lindian. "Yesterday, at the full sun
power, he was. in the Lodge of the we-
raw'ance of the Ohickahom+inies. He
and the Powhatans have 'buried the
hatchet." d7
"I regret_. to 'hear it," I remarked.
"While they took each other's scalps,
my awn felt the safer."
"I advise going direct to Opeoh'an-
canot,gh," said Rolfe.
'Since he's only a league away, so
do I," I ans'weaed.
We left the block house and the
clearing around it, and plunged into
the depths of the forest.' In tthesevir-
,gin woods ,the trees are well set apart
though linked one to the other by the
omnipresent grape, and there is little
undergrowth, so that we were able to
make good speed. Rolfe and I rode
well in front of our men. 'By now the
sten was shining through the lower
branches of the trees, and the mist
afternoon;" was fast vanishing. !The !foirest—
I 'hurried past her to the stable, ?,blind tis; above us, .and under .the
hoofs of the horses where the fallen
leaves lay thick—was 'as yellow as
gold and as red as blood.
"'Rolfe," I asked, breaking a long
silence, "do you credit what the Ind-
ians say of Olpe'clvancau'ou'gih?"
"That he was ,brother to Powhatan
only by adoption?"
"That, - fleeing for his life, he came
to Virginia, years and years ago,from
some mysterious land far to the south
and 'west?„
"I do not know," he. replied, "He
is like, .and yet not like, the 'people
whom, he rules. In his eye there is the
authority of mind; his features are of
a nobler cast
'And his heart is of a darker," I
said. "It is a strange and subtle swv
age."
"Strange enough and Subtle enough,
'admit, he answered, "though h be-
lieve not with you that his friendliness.
toward us is but a mask,"
"Believe it Or not, it is so," I said:
"That . dark, cold, still face is a mask,,
and that simple -seeming amazement
at horses and armor, gums and blue,
head's, is a mask. I't is in any, mind
that some day the ,mask will be dropp-
ed. Here's the village."
Until
.our interview with 'Ohanco
the Christian, the village of the Pas-
•paheghs, and not the village of the
Ohioleahominies, had been our destin-
ation, and sin'ce leaving the b'1'o'ck
'house we had made good speed; but
now, within the usual girdle of•mul-
'berri'es, we were met by the wero-
wance, and his chief men with the
cu'stom'ary savage oerembinies. • We
had long Since come to the conclusion
that the birds of the air and the fish
of the streams were Mercuries to the
Indians.
The weyowance received us in due
form, with presents of fish and veni-
son, cakes of chinquapin meat and
gourds of pohickory, an uncouth
dance by - twelve of his young men
and a deal Of hellish noise; then, at
our command; led us into the village,
and to the lodge which marked• its
centre. Around it were gathered
'Opecancanough's own warriors, men
from Orapax and Uttamussac and
Wero'wocomoco, chosen for their
strength and cunning; while upon the
grass beneath a blood -red gums tree
sat his wives, .painted. and tattoed,
with .great strings of pearl and copper
about their necks. 'Beyon'd them were
'the women and children of the Chick-
ahominies, andaround us all the red
forest.
The mat that hung 'before the door
of the lodge' was lifted, and an -Indian
emerging, came forward, with a ges-
ture of welcome. Iht was Nan'tauquas,
the Lady Rebekah's "brother, and the
one Indian—saving a'lway's his dead
sister 'th'a't was ever to my liking; a
savage, indeed, but a savage as brave
and chivalrous, as courteous and
truthful, as a .Christian knight,
Rolfe sprang from his horse andad-
vancing to meet the young chief em-
braced him.. N'ant'augnas had been
much with his sister during those her
happy days at Varina, before She
went wIIbh Rolfe on that ill-fated Voy-
age to England, and Rolfe loved him
for her sake and for his own. :"1
thought you at Orapax, Nantauquasl"
he excl'a'imed.
"I was there, my brother," said the
Indian, and his voice was sweet, deep
and grave like that of his sister. "But
tO'pechan'canough would go to Ufta-
musac, to the temple and the dead
kings. I lead 'hit war panties nbwv,
and I came with him. Opechanca-
n'ough is within the lodge. He asks
that my brother and Captain 'Percy
come to 'him there."
IHe lifted the mat for us, and foll-
owed us into the lodge. 'There was the
usual winding entrance, with half a
dozen mats to be 'lifted one after an-
other, but at last we Dame to the cen-
tral chamber and to the man we
sought. r
.He sat beside a small fire burning.
redly in the twilight of the room, The
light shone now upon the feathers in
his scalp lock, now upon the triple
raw of pearls around his neck, now
upon the knife and tomahawk in his
silk grass belt, now on the dttterskin
mantle hanging from his shoulder and
drawn across his knees. How old hie
was no man knew. Men said that he
was older than Powhatan, and Pow-
hatan was very _old when he died. But
he looked like a man in the prime of
life; his frame Was 'vigorous, his skin.
unwrinkled, his eyes 'bright and full.
When he rose to welcome- us, and
N'anitauquas stood beside him, 'there
seemed not a score of years between
them. ':
The matter upon which we had
came' was not one that brooked 'del'ay.
We waited with what patience we
knight until his long speech of wel-
come was .finished,' when, in as •few
:words as po'ssi'ble, Rolfe laid before
him our complaintagainst the Pasp'a
heghs, The Indian listened; then said,
in that voice that always made me
think of soime cold, still bottomless
pooi,.lying beneath overhanging rooks:
"My :brotliers may go in peace. - .The
'Paspa'heghs have washed off the''blacic
paint. Ulf my brothers go to the vil-
lage,,' they will find the peace pipe
ready for their smoking."
Rolfe and I stared at each other.
;G hes' hescenigers," continued
the Ltnpelo . '"1 have told 'the Pas-
paheghs of nuy love' for ', the white. men
and'aof the goodwill; the white man
bears the Iatdlau. I have told them
that Nem!attanoiw was:' a murderer,
andthathis death was, just.They are
satisfied; Their village' is as still as
)this beast at my feet," IIe pointed
downward to a tame panther crouch-
ed against his moccasins: 1 thought it
an om'inou's c'omparis'on.
IInvolun'tarily we looked at Nantau-
igtuas. "It is True," he :said. "I am but
came front tire villa> e df the Paspa-
'he'glus. I took'the'In the word of Olpe-
ch'an canto ugh."
"Then, since the matter is 'settled,.
We may go -home,",I remarked, rising
as I spoke. "We could of course.
have put down tare Paspaheghs witch
one hand, giving them .besides a les-
son wh'i'ch they would not soon forget;
hut in kindness of our hearts toward
them and to are ourselves trouble
we carne to Opechlanleauo:ugh- For his
aid in this tniifling business the Gover-,
nor gives ham thanks,"
IA simile just lit the features of the
II;ndian,
Ilt was ,gone in a moment.
"Does not Opeohaitnan!oerigli love the
twihite mien?" 'he said: "Same day 'he
will do nz'o're than this. for them.
We left ,the lodge and the daxtk Em-
peror within it, got to horse, and
'quitted the village, with its painted
,people, yellowing mulberries, and
blood -red gum trees. Nan'tau'quas
went with us, keeping pace .with
Rolfes horse, and giving us now and
then, in his deep 'musical voice, ,this
orthat bit of wood'la'nd news. At the
'black .house we found .conifirmation: of
the Emperor's statement. An emb'a'sisy
from the IPaspa'hegh's had 'c'am'e wi't'h
presents;and the peace pipe hard been
smoked. The spies, too, brought news
that .all warlike preparations had ceas-
ed in the village. Lt had . sunk once
more into a quietude .belfittintg the
sleepy, dreamy, hazy weather.
(Rolfe, and I' held a ah'ortconsulta-
tion. A11 :appeared safe, -,but there was
the possibility of a ruse. At .the last
it seemed. best that he, woo by virtue
of his peculiar relations 'with the In-
dians was ever our negotiator, should
remain at the block house with :half
our troop, while I reported to the
!Governor. So I left, him, and Nan
tauquas with him, and rode back to
!Tkmestown, reaching the town some
hours sooner than I was expected,
!It was after noonin'g when -I passed
through the gates of the .pa'lisade, and
an hour later when -I finished my re-
port to .the IGovernbr. When he at
anger there wa's fear', in my ;heart.
1 will go at once and brin'g her
home," I sa'i'd. As I spolce, 'I happen-
ed to glance bowar'd the ,fort and' the
-hipping, in the river beyond, Sonte-
king seemed wrong with the pro's-
.pest. I looked again, and saw what
hated and, famiiliiar,object was missing.
"Where is the, 'Santa Teresa?" I
demanded, the fear at my heart tug-
ging harder.
"S'he dropped downstream this
morning. I passed' her as I came up
from Archer's Ihhlpe, awhile ago.
S'tie's anchored in midstream off the
big spring. Why did she go?"
iWe looked ,each other in the. eyes,
and each read, the thought that nei'th-
er cared to put into words.,
"You' can take the brown mare,'.' I
said, speaking lightly bec'a'use my
heart was as heavy as lead, "and we'll
ride to the forest. It is all right, I
dare say. _Doubtless we'll find her
garlanding 'herself with ,the grape,. or
playing with the 'squirrels, or as'le'ep
on the red leaves, ,with her head in
Angela's lap."
"Doubitless," he said. "Don't lose
time. 'I'll saddle the mare and over-
take you in two minutes."
OHAIPTHR XIIV
(Ln. Wh'ic'h We Seek A Lost Lady
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Beside the minister and .myself, no-
thing human moved in the crimson.
woods. Blue haze was there, and the
steady •drift of colored leaves, and
,the sunshine freely falling through
hared limbs, but ho man or woman.
The fallen leaves rustled as the deer
passed, tihe squirrels _chattered and
the foxes barked, but we heard' no
sweet laughteror ringing song.
We found a bank of moss, and ly-
ing upon it a chaplet o8 red -brown
oak leaves; further on,. the mint be-
side a crystal _streamlet had been
trodden underfoot; then, flung dawn
upon the brown • earth beneath some
pines, we came upon a long trailer of
scarlet vine. Beyond •was .0 •fairy. heli
low, -a cuplike depression, curtained
from the world by the red vinesthat
hung from, the frees upon • its 'grim,
and carpeted with the gold of a groat
m'apl'e; and here Fear became a giant
with whom it was vain to wrestle,
!There had been a struggle in the
hollow. The curtain of vines was
torn, the' boughs of a sumach bent
and broken, the fallen ` leaves ground
underfoot, In ole plaos there was
blood upon the,; leaves.
The forest seemed '.suddenly' very
last dis;m'issed me, I rode quickly quiet;—quite soundless save for the
down the street toward the minister's beating of our hearts. On every side
house. As I passed the guest house,' opened red and yellow ways, sunny
I , glanced 'up at the window from
which, at daybreak, the Italian had
looked down upon me. N'o one look-
ed out now; the window was closely
shuttered, and at the door beneath
my lord's French rascals were con-
spicuously absent. A few yards fur-
ther on I met my lord face to face,
as heemerged from a lane that led
down to the river. At sight of me
he started violently, and this hand
went to his mouth. S slightly bent my
head, and rode on past him. At the
gate of the churchyard, a stone's
throw from home, I met Master Jer-
emy Sparrow,
"Well met," be exclaimed. "Are
the Indians quiet?"
"For the nonce. How is your sick
man?"
"Very well," he answered gravely.
PI dosed his eyes two hours ago:"
'`He's dead, then,". I said. "'Well,
he's out of his troubles, and hath
that advantage over the living. Have
you another call, that you traveT from
home so fast?"
"Why, to tell the truth," he replied,
"'I could not but feel uneasy when T
learned just now of this com'm'otion
amongst the hea'th•en. You must know
best, but I should not have thought it
a- day for madam to walk in the
woods; so I e'en thought 1 would
cross the -neck and bring her home."
"Por madam to walk in the woods,"
I said slowly. "So she walks there ?
With whom?"
"With Diccon and Angela," he an-
swered. "They went before -the sun
was an hour high, so Goodwife Al-
len says. I thought that you"
"No," I told him. "On the contrary,
I
left command that she should not
venture outside the garden.; There
are more than Indians abroad."
iI was white with anger; but besides
glades, labyrinthine paths, long aisles,
all dim with the blue haze like the
cloudy incense in stone cathedrals,
but nothing moved in them save the
creatures of the forest. Without the
hollow there was no sign. The leaves
looked usldistunbed, or ` others, drift-
ing down; had hidden any ` marks
there 'might have been; no footprints,
no broken branches, no token, of
these who had left the 'h'ollow. Down
which of the painted ways had they
gone, and where were they now?
ISlparrow and I sat our horses, and
stared' naw ,down this alley, naw dawn
that, into the blue that closed, each
vista.
"The Santa Teresa is just off the
big spring," he said at last. "She
must have dropped down there in
order to take in water quietly."
"The man that came upon her is
Still in town,—or was an hour 'agorae,'
li relplied.-
"Then she hasn''t sailed yet," he
said.
Im the distance something grew
out of the blue mist. iI had not lived
thirteen years ' in the woodlalitl to be
dim of sight or dull of.heari,n'g.
Some one is coming," I announc-
ed. "Back your horse into this clump
of sumach.".
'The sumach ,grew thick, and was
draped,moreover, with some broad -
leafed vine. Within its covert ' we
could see with small danger of be-
ing seen, unless the approaching fig-
ure should prove to be that of an
tIntdian, It was not an Indian; it was
my Lord Carnal. He came on slowly,
glancing from side to side, and paus-
ing now and then as if to l'is'ten. He
was so little of a .woodsman that he
never looked underfoot.
(Continued Next Week).
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