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The love of Waba-ohi was full of jealousy, and 

 tho salute and reply of his mistress converted it into 

 hate. Dashing his hand across his brow, on which tho 

 savage workings of his passion werg plainly visible, he 

 asked, if " a brave '' was to whine for a woman like a 

 bear for its cubs ? 



" Go ! " said he, flinging Cb^houla's arm from him : 

 "go! The mistletoe grows not upon young trees, and 

 the pale face shall be a rabbit in the den of the wolf ! " 



From the time that Rousseau was able to walk, he 

 had made a daily pilgrimage to the cross, and there, 

 upon his bended knees, greeted the morning sun. This 

 habit was known to all the tribe. The morning follow- 

 ing the scene between Wah-a-ola and Ohechoula, he was 

 found dead at the foot of the sacred tree. A poisoned 

 arrow had been driven almost through his body. 



Great was the constematipn of the Choctaws. It 

 was considered a mysterious evidence of impending evil ; 

 while not a single person could divine who was the mur- 

 derer. 



" The mistletoe grows not upon young trees ! " 

 thought Chechoula ; and for the first time she knew the 

 full meaning of the words, as she bent over the body of 

 Rousseau. She attended his obsequies with a sorrow 

 less visible, but more deep, than that of her people ; al- 

 though the whole tribe had, in the short residence of the 

 departed, learned to respect him, and to look upon him 

 as a great " Medicine." His grave was dug where he 



