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25 - The Last Of The Mohicans - James Cooper
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He was implicitly though reluctantly obeyed and when the low echo which rang along the hollow natural gallery From the distant closing door had ceased Pointing toward his insensible daughter. He said now let my brother show his power Thus unequivocally called on to exercise the functions of his assumed character Hayward was apprehensive that the smallest delay might prove dangerous Endeavoring then to collect his ideas He prepared to perform that species of incantation and those uncouth rights Under which the Indian conjurers are accustomed to conceal their ignorance and impetency It is more than probable that in the disordered state of his thoughts He would soon have fallen into some suspicious if not fatal error had not his incipient attempts been interrupted by a fierce growl from the quadrup head Three several times that he renewed his efforts to proceed and as often was he met by the same unaccountable opposition Each interruption seeming more savage and threatening than the preceding the cunning ones are jealous Said the Huron. I go Brother the woman is the wife of one of my bravest young men Deal justly by her Peace he added Beckling to the discontented beast to be quiet. I go the chief was as good as his word and Duncan now found himself alone in that wild and desolate abode with the helpless invalid and the fierce and dangerous brute He listened to the movements of the Indian with that air Seguacity that a bear is known to possess until another echo announced that he had also left the cavern When it turned and came waddling up to Duncan before whom it seeded himself in its natural attitude erect like a man The youth looked anxiously about him for some weapon with which he might make a resistance against the attack He now seriously expected It seemed however as the humor of the animal had suddenly changed Instead of continuing its discontented growls or Manifesting any further signs of anger the whole of its shaggy body shook violently as if agitated by some strange internal convulsion The huge and unwieldy talons pawed stupidly about the grinning muzzle and while Hayward kept his eyes riveted on its movements with jealous watchfulness The grim had fell on one side and in its place appeared the honest sturdy countenance of the scout Who was indulging from the bottom of his soul in his own peculiar expression of merriment? Said to wary woodsman interrupting Hayward's exclamation of surprise The farlets are about the place and any sounds that are not natural to witchcraft Would bring them back upon us in a body? Tell me the meaning of this masquerade and why you have attempted so desperate an adventure ah Reason and calculation are often outdone by accident return the scout But as a story should always commence from the beginning. I will tell you the whole in order After we departed I placed the commandant and the sagamore in an old beaver lodge Where they are safer from the heroines then they would be in the garrison of Edward For your high north west Indians not having as yet got the traders among them continued to venerate the beaver After which oncus and I pushed for the other encampment as was agreed Have you seen the lad? to my great grief he is captive and Condemned to die at the rising of the Sun I had misgivings that such would be his fate resumed the scout in a less confident and joyous tone But soon regaining his naturally firm voice continued His bad fortune is the true reason for my being here For it would never do to abandon such a boy to the urons a rare time the naves would have it Could they tie the bounding elk and the long carabin as they call me to the same stake? Though why they have given me such a name. I never knew There being as little likeness between the gifts of kildir and the performance of one of your real Canada carabinings as there is between the nature of a pipe stone and a flint Keep to your tail said the impatient Hayward. We know not at what moment the urons may return No fear of them a conjurer must have his time like a straggling priest in the settlements We are as safe from interruption as a missionary would be at the beginning of a two hours discourse Well, uncles and I fell in with a return party of the violets The lad was much too forward for a scout nay for that matter Being of hot blood he was not so much to blame and after all one of the urons proved a coward and In fleeing led him into an ambushment And dearly has he paid for the weakness the scout significantly passed his hand across his own throat and nodded as if he said I comprehend your meaning After which he continued in a more audible though scarcely more intelligible language After the loss of the boy I turned upon the urons as you may judge There have been scrimmages between one or two of their outliers and myself But that is neither here nor there So after I had shot the imps I got pretty nigh to the lodges without further commotion Then what should luck do in my favor but lead me to the very spot? Were one of the most famous conjurers of the tribe was dressing himself as I well knew for some great battle with Satan Though why should I call that luck which it now seems was in a special ordering of providence? So I judge medical rap over the head stiffened the lying imposter for a time and leaving him a bit of walnut for his super to prevent an uproar and Stringing him up between two samplings. I made free with his finery and took the part of the bear on myself in order that the operations might proceed and Admirably did you enact the character the animal itself might have been shamed by the representation Lord major returned the flattered woodsman I should be but a poor scholar for one who has studied so long in the wilderness Did I not know how to set forth the movements or nature of such a beast? Had it been now a cat amount or even a full-size panther? I would have embellished a performance for you worth regarding But it is no such marvelous feat to exhibit the feats of so dolla beast though for that matter too a Bear may be overacted Yes, yes, it is not every imitator that knows nature may be outdone easier than she is equaled But all our work is yet before us Where is the gentleman? Evan knows I examined every lodge in the village without discovering the slightest trace of her presence in the tribe You heard what the singer said as he left us She is at hand and expects you I Have been compelled to believe he alluded to this unhappy woman The simpleton was frightened and blundered through his message, but he had a deeper meaning Here are walls enough to separate the whole settlement a Bear ought to climb therefore. I would take a look above them There may be honeypots hidden these rocks and I am a beast. You know that as a hankering for the sweets The scout looked behind him laughing at his own conceit while he clambered up the partition Imitating as he went the clumsy motions of the beast he represented But the instant the summit was gained. He made a gesture of silence and slid down with the utmost precipitation She is here he whispered and by that door you will find her I Would have spoken a word of comfort to the afflicted soul But the sight of such a monster might upset her reason Though for that matter major you are none of the most inviting yourself in your paint Duncan who had already swung eagerly forward through instantly back on hearing these discouraging words Am I then so very revolting? He demanded with an air of chagrin You might not startle a wolf or turn the royal Americans from a discharge But I have seen the time when you had better favored look Your street countences are not ill-judged of by the squaws But young woman of white blood give the preference to their own color See he added pointing to a place that where the water trickled from a rock forming a little crystal spring Before it found an issue through the adjacent crevices You may easily get rid of the sagamores dog and when you come back. I will try my hand at a new embellishments It's as common for a conjurer to alter his paint as for a buck in the settlements to change his finery The deliberate woodsman had little occasion to hunt for arguments to enforce his advice He was yet speaking when Duncan availed himself of the water in a moment every frightful or offensive mark was obliterated and The youth appeared again in the liniments with which he had been gifted by nature Thus prepared for an interview with his mistress He took a hasty leave of his companion and disappeared through the indicated passage the scout witnessed his departure with complacency Nodding his head after him and muttering his good wishes After which he very coolly set about an examination of the state of the latter among the Hurons the Cavern among other purposes being used as a receptacle for the fruits of their hunts Duncan had no other guide than a distant glimmering light which served however the office of a poor star to the lover By its aid. He was enabled to enter the haven of his hopes Which it was merely another apartment of the cavern that had been solely Appropriated to the safe keeping of so important a prisoner as the daughter of the commandant of William Henry It was profusely strud with the plunder of that unlucky fortress in the midst of this confusion. He found her. He sought pale anxious and terrified But lovely David had prepared her for such a visit Duncan she exclaimed in a voice that seemed to tremble at the sounds created by itself Alice he answered Leaping carelessly among Trunks boxes arms and furniture until he stood at her side. I knew you would never desert me She said looking up with a momentary glow on her otherwise dejected continents But you are alone Grateful as it is to be thus remembered. I could wish to think you are not entirely alone Duncan observing that she trembled in a manner which betrayed her inability to stand gently induced her to be seated While he recounted those leading incidents, which it has been our task to accord Alice listened with breathless interest and though the young man touched lightly on the sorrows of the stricken father taking care however Not to wound the self-love of his auditor The tears ran as freely down the cheeks of the daughter as though she had never wept before The soothing tenderness of Duncan however soon quieted the first burst of her emotions and she then heard him to the close With undivided attention if not with composure and now Alice he added You will see how much is still expected of you By the assistance of our experienced and invaluable friend the scout We may find our way from this savage people, but you will have to exert your utmost fortitude remember that you fly to the arms of your venerable parent and How much is happiness as well as your own depends on these exertions? Can I do otherwise For father who has done so much for me and for me too continued the youth Gently pressing the hand he held in both his own The look of innocence and surprise which he received in return Convinced Duncan of the necessity of being more explicit. This is neither the place nor the occasion to detain you with selfish wishes he added But what heart loaded like mine would not wish to cast its burden They say misery is the closest of all ties Our common suffering in your behalf left but little to be explained between your father and myself And dearest Cora Duncan Surely Cora was not forgotten not forgotten no Regreted as woman was seldom born before Your venerable father knew no difference between his children but I Alice you will not be offended when I say that to me her worth was in a degree Obscured then you knew not the merit of my sister said Alice withdrawing her hand of you she ever speaks has one who is her dear his friend I Would gladly believe her such return Duncan hastily I could wish her to be even more but with you Alice I Have the permission of your father to aspire to a still near and dear tie Alice trembled violently and there was an instant during which she bent her face aside Yielding to the emotions common to her sex But they quickly passed away leaving her mistress of her deportment if not of her affections Hey word she said looking him full in the face with a touching expression of innocence and dependency Give me the sacred presence and the holy sanction of that parent before you urged me further The more I should not Less I could not say the youth was about to answer When he was interrupted by a light tap on his shoulder starting to his feet he turned and Confronting the intruder his looks fell on the dark form and the malignant visage of magua The deep guttural laugh of the savage Sounded as such a moment to Duncan like the hellish taunt of a demon Had he pursued the sudden and fierce impulse of the instant he would have cast himself on the Huron and Committed their fortunes to the issue of a deadly struggle but without arms of any description ignorant of what suker his subtle enemy could command and Charged with the safety of one who was just then dear than ever to his heart He no sooner entertained Then he abandoned the desperate intention. What is your purpose? set Alice meekly folding her arms on her bosom and Struggling to conceal an agony of apprehension in behalf of Hayward in the usual cold and distant manner With which she received the visits of her captor The Exalting India had resumed his austere countenance though. He drew warily back from the menacing glance of the young man's fiery eye He regarded both his captives for a moment with a steady look and then stepping aside He dropped a log of wood across a door different from that by which Duncan had entered the later now comprehended the manner of his surprise and Believing him irretrievably lost he drew Alice to his bosom and stood prepared to meet a fate which he hardly regretted Since it was suffered in such company but Marqua meditated no immediate violence His first measures were very evidently taken to secure his new captive Nor did he even bestow a second glance at the motionless forms at the center of the cavern Until he had completely cut off every hope of retreat through the private outlet. He had himself used He was watched in all his movements by Hayward who however remained firm Still folding the fragile form of Alice to his heart at once too proud and to hopeless to ask favor of an enemy So often foiled When Marqua had affected his object he approached his prisoners and said in English The pale faces trapped the cunning beavers, but the Redskins know how to take the young geese You're on do your worst exclaimed the excited Hayward Forgetful that a double stake was involved in his life You and your vengeance are alike despised Will the white men speak these words at the stake asked Magua manifesting at the same time How little faith he had in the other's resolution by the sneer that accompanied his words Here singly in your face or in the presence of your nation Le re'nall souptile is a great chief Returned the Indian he will go and bring his young men to see how bravely a pale face can laugh at tortures He turned away while speaking and was about to leave the place through the avenue by which Duncan had approached When a growl caught his ear and caused him to hesitate The figure of the bear appeared in the door where it sat rolling from side to side in its customary restlessness Magua like the father of the sick woman. I did keenly for a moment as if to ascertain its character he was far above the more vulgar superstitions of his tribe and So soon as he recognized the well-known attire of the conjurer He prepared to pass it in cold contempt But a louder and more threatening growl Caused him again to pause then he seemed as if suddenly resolved to trifle no longer and Moved resolutely forward the mimic animal which had advanced a little retired slowly in his front until it arrived again at the pass when Rearing on its hinder legs. It beat the air with its paws in the manner practiced by its brutal prototype Fool exclaimed the chief in here on go play with the children and squas leave men to their wisdom He wants more endeavor to pass the supposed in empiric Scorning even the parade of threatening to use the knife or tomahawk that was pendant from his belt Suddenly the beast extended its arms or rather legs and enclosed him in a grasp that would have vied with far-famed power of the bear's hug itself Hayward had watched the whole procedure on the part of Hawkeye with breathless interest at first. He relinquished his hold on Alice Then he caught up a thong of buckskin which had been used around some bundle and when he beheld his enemy About his two arms pinned to his side by the iron muscles of the scout He rushed upon him and effectively secured them there Arms legs and feet were encircled in 20 folds of the thong in less time than we have taken to record the circumstance When the formidable Huron was completely pinioned the scout released his hold and Duncan laid his enemy on his back utterly helpless throughout the whole of this sudden and extraordinary operation makwa Though he had struggled violently until assured he was in the hands of one whose nerves were far better strung than his own Had not uttered the slightest exclamation But when Hawkeye by way of making a summary explanation of his conduct removed the shaggy jaws of the beast and Exposed his own rugged and earnest countenance to the gaze of the Huron The philosophy of the latter was so far mastered as to permit him to utter the never failing hug I You found your tongue said his undisturbed conquer Now in order that you shall not use it to our ruin I must make free to stop your mouth And there was no time to be lost the scout immediately said about affecting so necessary a precaution and When he had gagged the Indian his enemy might safely have been considered as Lures to combat By what place did the imp enter it as the industrious scout when his work was ended? Not a soul has passed my way since you left me Duncan pointed out the door by which makwa had come and which now presented too many obstacles for a quick retreat Bring on the gentle one then continued his friend We must make a push for the woods by the other outlet There's impossible said Duncan fear has overcome her and she is helpless Alice my sweet my own Alice arouse yourself now is the moment to fly Tizzy and vain she hears but is unable to follow Go noble and worthy friend save yourself and leave me to my fate Every trail has its end and every calamity brings its lesson return the scout there Wrap her in them Indian cloths conceal all of her little form Nay that foot has no fellow in the wilderness. It will betray her all Every part now take her in your arms and follow leave the rest to me Duncan as may be gathered from the words of his companion was eagerly obeying and as the other Finnish speaking He took the light person of Alice in his arms and followed in the footsteps of the scout They found the sick woman as they had left her still alone and Pass swiftly on by the natural gallery to the place of entrance as they approached the little door of bark a murmur of voices Without announced that the friends and relatives of the invalid were gathered about the place Patiently awaiting a summons to re-enter if I open my lips to speak Hawkeye whispered my English, which is the genuine tongue of a white skin will tell the farlets that an enemy is among them You must give them your jargon major and say that we have shut the evil spirit in the cave and We are taking the woman to the woods in order to find strengthening roots Practice all your cunning for it is a lawful undertaking The door opened a little as if one without was listening to the proceedings within and Compelled the scout to cease his directions a fierce growl repelled the eavesdropper and then the scout boldly threw open the covering of bark And left the place in acting the character of a bear as he proceeded Duncan kept close at his heels and soon found himself in the center of a cluster of 20 anxious relatives and friends The crowd fell back a little and permitted the father and one who appeared to be the husband of the woman to approach Hasn't my brother driven away the evil spirit demanded the former? What has he in his arms? thy child returned Duncan gravely The disease has gone out of her. It is shut up in the rocks. I Take the woman to a distance where I will strengthen her against any further attacks She will be in the wigwam of the young man when the Sun comes again When the father had translated the meaning of the stranger's words into the Huron language a suppressed murmur announced the satisfaction With which this intelligence was received? The chief himself waved his hand for Duncan to proceed saying aloud in a firm voice and with a lofty manner Go I am a man and I will enter the rock and fight the wicked one Hey, we're gladly obeyed and was already past the little group when those startling words arrested him. Is my brother mad? He exclaimed is he cruel? He will meet the disease and it will enter him or he will drive out the disease and it will chase his daughter into the woods No, let my children wait without and if the spirit appears beat him down with clubs He is cunning and will bury himself in the mountain when he sees how many are ready to fight him This singular warning had the desired effect Instead of entering the cavern The father and the husband drew their tomahawks and posted themselves in readiness to deal their vengeance on the imaginary tormentor of their sick relative While the woman and children broke branches from the bushes or seized fragments of the rock with a similar intention At this favorable moment the counterfeit conjurers disappeared Hawkeye at the same time that he had presumed so far in the nature of the Indian Superstitions was not ignorant that they were rather tolerated than relied on by the wisest of the chiefs He well knew the value of time in the present emergency Whatever might be the extent of the self-delusion of his enemies and however it had tended to assist his scheme The slightest cause of suspicion Acting on the subtle nature of an Indian would be likely to prove fatal Taking the path therefore that was most likely to avoid observation He rather skirted then entered the village The warriors were still to be seen in the distance by the fading light of the fires stalking from lodge to lodge But the children had abandoned their sports for their beds of skins and the quiet of night was already beginning to prevail over the turbulence an Excitement of so busy and important an evening Alice revived under the renovating influence of the open air and As her physical rather than her mental powers had been the subject of weakness She stood in no need of any explanation of that which had occurred Now let me make an effort to walk she said as they had entered the forest Blushing though unseen that she had not been sooner able to quit the arms of Duncan. I am indeed restored Nailus you are yet too weak The maidens struggled gently to release herself and Hayward was compelled to part with his precious burden the representative of the bear had certainly been an entire stranger to the delicious emotions of the lover while his arms encircled his mistress and He was perhaps a stranger also to the nature of that feeling of ingenuous shame that oppressed the trembling Alice but when he found himself at a suitable distance from the lodges he made a halt and Spoke on a subject of which he was thoroughly the master This path will lead you to the brook he said Follow its northern bank until you come to a fall Mount the hill on your right and you will see the fires of the other people There you must go and demand protection if they are true Delaware's you will be safe a Distant flight with that gentleman just now is impossible The heroines would follow up our trail and master our scalps before we got a dozen miles go and Providence be with you and you demanded Hayward in surprise Surely we not part here The heroines hold the pride of the Delaware's the last of the high blood of the Mexicans in their power returned the scout I Go to see what can be done in his favor Had they mastered your scout major and nave should have fallen for every hair it held as I promised But if the young Sagamor is to be led to the stake the Indians shall also see how a man without a cross can die Not in the least offended with the decided preference that the sturdy woodsman gave to one who might in some degree be called the child of his adoption Don't can still continue to urge such reasons against so desperate an effort as presented themselves He was aided by Alice who mingled her in treaties with those of Hayward that he would abandon a resolution The promise so much danger with so little hope of success their eloquence and Ingenuity were expended in vain the scout heard them attentively but impatiently and Finally closed the discussion by answering in a tone that instantly silenced Alice While it told Hayward how fruitless any further remonstrances would be I Have heard he said that There is a feeling in youth which binds man to a woman closer than father is tied to the son It may be so I Have seldom been where woman of my colored well But such may be the gifts of nature in the settlements you have risked life and all that is dear to you to bring off this gentleman and I suppose that some such disposition is at the bottom of it all as for me I Taught the lad the real character of a rifle and well has he paid me for it I fought at his side in many a bloody scrimmage and So long as I could hear the crack of his piece in one year and that of the sag more in the other I Knew no enemy was on my back winters and summer Night and days we have roved the wilderness and company Eating of the same dish one sleeping while the other watched and a for it shall be said that uncles was taken to the torment and I at hand There is but a single ruler of us all whatever may the color of the skin and him I call to witness That before the Mohican boy shall perish for the want of a friend good faith shall depart the earth and Kill dear become as harmless as the tuning weapon of the singer Duncan released his hold on the arm of the scout who turned and steadily retraced his steps toward the lodges After pausing a moment to gaze at his retiring form The successful and yet sorrowful Hayward and Alice took their way together toward the distant village of the Delaware's end of chapter 25 with the lucky land sluts you can get lucky just about anywhere Beloved we're gathered here today. 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