!«
    »I do not know! I would do much to warn my father, and the excellent
Pathfinder, and all the rest, of the danger they are in.«
    »Like Pathfinder?«
    »All like him who know him - you would like him, nay love him, if you only
knew his heart!«
    »No like him, at all. Too good rifle - too good eye - too much shoot
Iroquois, and June's people. Must get his scalp, if can.«
    »And I must save it, if I can, June. In this respect, then, we are opposed
to each other. I will go and find a canoe the instant they are all asleep, and
quit the island.«
    »No can - June won't let you. Call Arrowhead.«
    »June! You could not betray me - you would not give me up, after all you
have done for me!«
    »Just so -« returned June, making a backward gesture with her hand, and
speaking with a warmth and earnestness Mabel had never witnessed in her before.
»Call Arrowhead in loud voice. One call from wife, wake a warrior up. June no
let Lily help enemy - no let Injin hurt Lily.«
    »I understand you, June, and feel the nature and justice of your sentiments;
and, after all, it were better that I should remain here, for I have most
probably overrated my strength. But, tell me one thing; if my uncle comes, in
the night, and asks to be admitted, you will let me open the door of the block
house that he may enter?«
    »Sartain - He prisoner here, and June like prisoner, better than scalp.
Scalp good for honor; prisoner good for feeling. But, Salt-Water hide so close,
he do'n't know where he be himself.«
    Here June laughed, in her girlish mirthful way, for to her, scenes of
violence were too familiar to leave impressions sufficiently deep, to change her
natural character. A long and discursive dialogue now followed, in which Mabel
endeavored to obtain clearer notions of her actual situation, under a faint hope
that she might possibly be enabled to turn some of the facts she thus learned,
to advantage. June answered all her interrogatories simply, but with a caution
which showed she fully distinguished between that which was immaterial and that
which might endanger the safety, or embarrass the future operations of her
friends. Our heroine was incapable of making an attempt to entrap