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Natur' will work in the bosom of the
child, and we shall gain our object, in good time."
"The whole truth is out, Ellen," Paul continued, "and we have lined
the squatter into his most secret misdoings. We have come to right the
wronged and to free the imprisoned; now, if you are the girl of a true
heart, as I have always believed, so far from throwing straws in our
way, you will join in the general swarming, and leave old Ishmael and
his hive to the bees of his own breed."
"I have sworn a solemn oath--"
"A compactum which is entered into through ignorance, or in duresse,
is null in the sight of all good moralists," cried the Doctor.
"Hush, hush," again the trapper whispered; "leave it all to natur' and
the lad!"
"I have sworn in the sight and by the name of Him who is the founder
and ruler of all that is good, whether it be in morals or in
religion," Ellen continued, "neither to reveal the contents of that
tent, nor to help its prisoner to escape. We are both solemnly,
terribly, sworn; our lives perhaps have been the gift we received for
the promises.


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