Delawares to grant to him, when they
admitted him as an honorary member of their tribe.«
    »This, then, is thy Indian blood?«
    »I have no other,« said Edwards, smiling; - »Major Effingham was adopted as
the son of Mohegan, who at that time was the greatest man in his nation; and my
father, who visited those people when a boy, received the name of the Eagle from
them, on account of the shape of his face, as I understand. They have extended
his title to me. I have no other Indian blood or breeding; though I have seen
the hour, Judge Temple, when I could wish that such had been my lineage and
education.«
    »Proceed with thy tale,« said Marmaduke.
    »I have but little more to say, sir. I followed to the lake where I had so
often been told that Natty dwelt, and found him maintaining his old master in
secret; for even he could not bear to exhibit to the world, in his poverty and
dotage, a man whom a whole people once looked up to with respect.«
    »And what did you?«
    »What did I! I spent my last money in purchasing a rifle, clad myself in a
coarse garb, and learned to be a hunter by the side of Leather-stocking. You
know the rest, Judge Temple.«
    »Ant vere vast olt Fritz Hartmann!« said the German, reproachfully; »didst
never hear a name as of olt Fritz Hartmann from ter mout of ter fader, lat?«
    »I may have been mistaken, gentlemen,« returned the youth; »but I had pride,
and could not submit to such an exposure as this day even has reluctantly
brought to light. I had plans that might have been visionary; but, should my
parent survive till autumn, I purposed taking him with me to the city, where we
have distant relatives, who must have learnt to forget the Tory by this time. He
decays rapidly,« he continued, mournfully, »and must soon lie by the side of old
Mohegan.«
    The air being pure, and the day fine, the party continued conversing on the
rock, until the wheels of Judge Temple's carriage were heard clattering up the
side of the mountain, during which time the conversation was maintained with
deep interest, each moment clearing up some doubtful action, and lessening the
antipathy of the youth to Marmaduke. He no longer objected to the removal of his
grandfather, who displayed a childish pleasure when he found