never leave the cup. More ships will come, and more; you will grow ever stronger. There may come a moon when the deep forests and the shining rivers know us, to whom Kiwassa gave them, no more.” He paused, with unmoved face, and eyes that seemed to pierce the wall and look out into unfathomable distances. “Go!” he said at last. “If you die not in the woods, if you see again the man whom I called my brother and teacher, tell him� tell him nothing! Go!”

“Come with us,” urged Diccon gruffly. “We English will make a place for you among us” — and got no further, for I turned upon him with a stern command for silence.

“I ask of you no such thing, Nantauquas,” I said. “Come against us, if you will. Nobly warned, fair