"
"I understand you, Serpent, and I understood Hist. Sometimes I
think I'm not half as feeble minded as they say I am. Now, do you
look up at the roof, and I'll tell you all. But you frighten me,
you look so eager when I speak of Hist."
The Indian controlled his looks, and affected to comply with the
simple request of the girl.
"Hist told me to say, in a very low voice, that you mustn't trust
the Iroquois in anything. They are more artful than any Indians
she knows. Then she says that there is a large bright star that
comes over the hill, about an hour after dark" - Hist had pointed
out the planet Jupiter, without knowing it - "and just as that
star comes in sight, she will be on the point, where I landed last
night, and that you must come for her, in a canoe."
"Good - Chingachgook understand well enough, now; but he understand
better if my sister sing him ag'in."
Hetty repeated her words, more fully explaining what star was
meant, and mentioning the part of the point where he was to venture
ashore. She now proceeded in her own unsophisticated way to relate
her intercourse with the Indian maid, and to repeat several of her
expressions and opinions that gave great delight to the heart of
her betrothed.
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