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for he is to return now not to Montreal but to France to take up his 

 duties as a chevalier, because his father has died and he is his only heir. 

 She learns, too, that France and his chateau is no i)roper ])lace for Half 

 Moon's beautiful Indian wife, with her dusky skin and Iroquois ways 

 of life. Oak Leaf, his beautiful fair-skinned daughter, and Red Wing 

 are to go with him, however, and see the " great king," live in the 

 chevalier's chateau, and Red Wing is to be his heir. All this delights 

 Oak Leaf, who parts with Glory of the Morning with some regret, which 

 is overborne with anticipated joy. Red Wing stoutly and doggedly 

 rejects all such plans for his future. Black Wolf, the wise old medicine 

 man, urges the right of each child to decide the question. The mother's 

 almost silent agony after her first wondering appeals has all the Indian 

 stoical dignity. The scene at the lodge closes with the departure of 

 the chevalier and Oak Leaf, while the calm despair of Glory of the Morning, 

 as she watches them go, moves Black Wolf to prophesy a great future 

 for her son, Red Wing, as chief of his own people in his own land. 



The neighboring groups, meanwhile, show some curiosity but keep 

 apart. The girls play football near enough to watch furtively, but not 

 to listen to Oak Leaf. The young men practice lacrosse with great glee, 

 and the older men settle down to the moccasin game with the women 

 to watch. The children become visibly sleepy and inactive. By the 

 time the canoe bearing Half Moon and Oak Leaf is out of sight and sound, 

 Glory of the Morning and Black Wolf have joined the group at the game 

 of moccasin, and Red Wing is following eagerly the movements of the 

 lacrosse players. 



Gradually the Indian matrons lead their children off to bed within 

 the long house, and active sport ends in the twilight. 



