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The breathing of Paul grew
louder and deeper, and more than once Ellen trembled at she knew not
what, as she felt the quivering of his active frame, while she leaned
dependently on his arm for support.
The shallow honesty, as well as the besetting infirmity of Weucha,
have already been exhibited. The reader, therefore, will not be
surprised to learn that he was the first to forget the regulations he
had himself imposed. It was at the precise moment when we left
Mahtoree yielding to his nearly ungovernable delight, as he surveyed
the number and quality of Ishmael's beasts of burden, that the man he
had selected to watch his captives chose to indulge in the malignant
pleasure of tormenting those it was his duty to protect. Bending his
head nigh the ear of the trapper, the savage rather muttered than
whispered--
"If the Tetons lose their great chief by the hands of the
Long-knives[*], old shall die as well as young!"
[*] The whites are so called by the Indians, from their swords.
"Life is the gift of the Wahcondah," was the unmoved reply.


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