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revenge flept very quietly, Lietot gave each of 

 them feveral blows with the hatchet on the head. 

 The Indian and the fervant died immediately. 

 Mor angel raifed himlelf fo as to fit up rights 

 without fpeaking a word ; and the murderers 

 obliged the Sieur de Marne to difpatch him, 

 threatening to kill him too if he refufed ; thus, 

 by making him an accomplice of their crime, 

 they wanted to fecure themfelves againft his ae- 

 cufing them. 



The firft crime is always followed by uneafi- 

 •nefs 'y the greateft villains find it difficult to con- 

 quer it : the murderers conceived^ that it would 

 hot be eafy to efcape the. juft vengeance of M, 

 de la Salle^ unlefs by preventing him ; and this 

 they refolved upon, after deliberating on the 

 means of efFcding it. They thought the fafeft 

 v;ay was to meet him, and furprife all that ac- 

 companied him, and fo open themfelves a way 

 for the murder which they intended to perpe- 

 trate. 



So firange a refolutiori could only be infpired 

 by that blind d-fpair, v^hich hurries villains into 

 the abyfs v^^hich they dig for themfelves : an un- 

 expedted incident became favourable to them, 

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