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"He does not"

"That is bad," her brows contracting "Still heyou will answer my purpose Bid him advance to my side on the platform; bid him pretend to hold converse with esture and obey Will he do your bidding?"

"I know not," I replied honestly "He is of a bull-headed breed, yet I may be able to drive into hihly, nor be too long about it The chiefs grow restless at our talk, and may yet take affairs into their own hands"

I turned doubtfully toward the Puritan, as glaring up at the woht have looked upon some wild animal seen for the first time I presume the fiery red drapery caused him to deem her that veritable scarlet wo a proreat head must have ached still from contact with the club, which had alone beaten hi the attempt was so desperately in earnest that I determined to do lish, "and bear in mind the preservation of all our lives depends on the part you play The wo es I know not why you are the one thus chosen, yet I suspect that fiery crop of hairto do with the honor The ?"

"Nay!" he replied, gazing atyour own life, and the lives of your comrades?"

"I touch not the accursed aboer, "nor will I have aught to do with yonder shahly aroused by his mulishness, "do you deliberately choose to sacrifice the life of this lady to your bull-headed fanaticism? Do you refuse to unbend your h by so doing you ht keep your comrades from the horrors of the stake? If this is what you mean, I denounce you as unworthy to be called a ion no odly you profess to despise You are no better than a Pharisee, full of loud-hteousness, a false prophet, haggling over forhtest sacrifice of what you hold the letter of the laould result in the salvation of human life You call yourself a Christian, a follower of that Nazarene who died for sinners on the cross, dee to other creed You sneer at that rosary in Madaers, yet do you suppose it possible she would not endeavor to pluck your life from the jaws of death if it lay in her power? Ay! and never waste speech about abominations in the path"