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captain and lieutenant paced up and down among the 

 bushes. With the exception of a sharp quick glance 

 occasionally cast towards the groups of Indians, they 

 appeared to take no particular interest in what was 

 passing. 



El Sol, the young chief of the Comanches, was the 

 affianced husband of Canondah, whom he had come 

 to make his bride. In the council now held, it was 

 decided that the alliance between Tokeah and the 

 pirate should be broken off, and that the remnant of 

 the Oconees should be incorporated with the powerful 

 tribes of the Comanches and Pawnees. The former 

 part of this decision was communicated to Lafitte, who 

 made a violent but unsuccessful claim upon the hand 

 of Rosa, and finally entered his boat and descended the 

 stream. El Sol, who greatly distrusted him, advised 

 Tokeah to be on his guard against treachery ; but the 

 Miko denied the possibility of danger, on account of 

 the distance of the pirate's haunt, and because, on the 

 following morning, the village was to be abandoned, 

 and the Oconees and their visitors were to proceed 

 together to the country of the Comanches. He either 

 forgot that the pirate had sent off a boat on the pre- 

 ceding morning, or thought it unnecessary to increase 

 the uneasiness of his guest by adverting to so unim- 

 portant a circumstance. In spite of what he had 

 recently learned, he still entertained a feeling of 

 kindness for Lafitte, with whom he had so long 

 been on terms of friendship, and thought him in- 



