They returned one evening about the usual hour of sunset, and missed
their meek, uncomplaining guest from the place she was wont to occupy. They
called, but there was none to reply--she too was gone. They hurried to the
shore just time enough to see the canoe diminishing to a mere speck upon
the waters, in the direction of the mouth of the river; they called to her
in accents of despair, to return, but the wind wafted back no sound to
their ears, and soon the bark was lost to sight, and they sat them down
disconsolately on the shore.
"What is she doing?" said Hector; "this is cruel to abandon us thus."
"She has gone up the river, with the hope of bringing us some tidings of
Catharine," said Louis. "How came you to think that such is her intention?"
"I heard her say the other day that she would go and bring her back, or
die."
"What! do you think she would risk the vengeance of the old chief whose
life she attempted to take?"
"She is a brave girl; she does not fear pain or death to serve those she
loves."
"Alas!" said Hector, "she will perish miserably and to no avail; they would
not restore our dear sister, even at the sacrifice of Indiana's life.
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