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All I could do that day was to pace the hard earthen floor, vainly endeavoring to quiet the wild throbbing of ht conjure up, now and then approaching the unguarded entrance of the lodge to search anxiously for so afternoon wore away, until the deepening shadows of sun-setting rested heavily along the western cliffs, and the workers in the fields began trooping through the village, their shouts of greeting shrill and discordant, while the grim priests found place before the draped entrance to their dread altar-house, with blazing fagots signalling their distant brethren on the dizzy suing frolance to note the subtile change the afternoon had wrought in his personal appearance, yet at the tireatly marvel at it The stains of battle and exposure, that had so decidedly disfigured hiic of new raiment, which had about it the color and cut of French fashion; so it was now a fair and prosperous gallant of the court, powdered of hair, waxen of s

"What said I, Master Benteen?" he questioned cheerily to my stare of surprise "Did I not boldly contend that this would yet prove a pleasant resting-place to relieve the tediuer doubting the verity of my drealoomy as a day of rain Prithie, the afternoon must have been passed by you far less pleasantly than its hours sped with ood Master Cairnes," I responded gravely "I found hiht"

"Parbleu! I warrant not froayly "'T is told riod, trussed like a bronze idol or so on his sole to his words withal"

"'T is an unhappy experience for a Christian"

"Ay! a pity; yet it should do the canting preacher good to play heathen god a while She pictured tohich to hed so heartily since leaving New Orleans"

"She?" I exclaimed in new interest "Have you been with your wife?"