The Indian remarked her surprise;
and then looking hurriedly, yet keenly, around, and
finding no living being near them, suddenly tore the
shirt from his chest, and emphatically pronouncing the
names "Oucanasta," "De Haldimar," disclosed to the still
struggling captive the bosom of a woman. After which,
pointing in the direction of the wood, and finally towards
Detroit, she gave Miss de Haldimar to understand that
was the course intended to be pursued.
In a moment the resistance of the latter ceased. She at
once recognised the young Indian woman whom her cousin
had rescued from death: and aware, as she was, of the
strong attachment that had subsequently bound her to her
preserver, she was at no loss to understand how she might
have been led to devote herself to the rescue of one
whom, it was probable, she knew to be his affianced wife.
Once, indeed, a suspicion of a different nature crossed
her mind; for the thought occurred to her she had only
been saved from the general doom to be made the victim
of private revenge--that it was only to glut the jealous
vengeance of the woman at a more deliberative hour, she
had been made a temporary captive.
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