2/18 A man, breathless with hard riding, spattered with swamp mud and torn by briers, stood, cap in hand, staring from one to the other. "Yesterday you called the profound peace with the Indians, of which some of us boasted, the lull before the storm. Faith, it looks to-day as though you were in the right, after all!" "What 's the matter, sir ?" I asked, advancing to the table. "This man has come, post haste, from the plantations above Paspahegh. Three days ago, Morgan, the trader, was decoyed into the woods by that Paspahegh fool and bully, Nemattanow, whom they call Jack of the Feather, and there murdered. |