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"No talk loud," said Hist. "Some Iroquois got Yengeese tongue,
and all got Yengeese ear."
"Have we a friend in you, young woman?" enquired Hutter with an
increasing interest in the conference. "If so, you may calculate
on a solid reward, and nothing will be easier than to send you to
your own tribe, if we can once fairly get you off with us to the
castle. Give us the Ark and the canoes, and we can command the
lake, spite of all the savages in the Canadas. Nothing but artillery
could drive us out of the castle, if we can get back to it.
"S'pose 'ey come ashore to take scalp?" retorted Hist, with cool
irony, at which the girl appeared to be more expert than is common
for her sex.
"Ay - ay - that was a mistake; but there is little use in lamentations,
and less still, young woman, in flings."
"Father," said Hetty, "Judith thinks of breaking open the big chest,
in hopes of finding something in that which may buy your freedom
of the savages."
A dark look came over Hutter at the announcement of this fact, and
he muttered his dissatisfaction in a way to render it intelligible
enough.
"What for no break open chest?" put in Hist. "Life sweeter than
old chest -scalp sweeter than old chest.
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