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made an impression upon the pirate. He walked 

 several times hastily up and down the room, and 

 then again stopped opposite to the old man. 



"We'll say no more about that, friend Tokeah," 

 said he. " I do not count the scalps that you have 

 stripped from the skulls of the Yankees, and you 

 must not reckon too severely with me. What is 

 done is done ; but the future will be very different. 

 I am fully decided to abandon my wild course of life, 

 and then we'll sit down quietly, and live together in 

 a little paradise, half a TIndienne, half a la Franpaise, 

 jovial and joyous." 



" The Miko of the Oconees," replied Tokeah, " has 

 never stained his hand with the blood of his friends. 

 He is poor, but his hand has never kmched what be- 

 longed not to him. His fathers would look down on 

 him with grief, if he lived in friendship with a thief ; 

 the Great Spirit would hide his face, if he disgraced 

 his people by an alliance with the robber." 



The Frenchman had listened to these words more 

 tranquilly than might have been expected, but with 

 a slight twitching of his features, that showed they 

 touched him to the quick. Suddenly he turned away. 



" Is that your way of thinking 1 " said he. " You 

 fancy you can get on better without Lafitte ? I've no 

 objection. If I had known it sooner, I would have 

 spared myself the trouble of listening to your insolence, 

 and you that of uttering it. Adieu, Monsieur Miko." 



" My brother is hungry," said the Indian, starting 



