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THE RED DEATHI looked from one to the other with astonishment; but 'twas the governor who intervened.
"Your pardon, Peter," he said good-humoredly enough, "but that letter happens to deal with a most confidential subject."
"Oh, ja," said Corlaer indifferently. "But I do not readt."
"Take the letter, Ga-en-gwa-ra-go," said the Indian. "Ta-wan-ne-ars does not seek your secrets. But you need have no fears. This young Englishman is Ta-wan-ne-ars' friend."
"How! What is that?" exclaimed the governor, much perplexed. "You know Master Ormerod?"
"Ta-wan-ne-ars knows not the Englishman's name," replied the Indian with his grave smile; "but he knows the Englishman's heart."
And in his sonorous English, with a slightly guttural intonation, he recounted how I had rescued him from his childis
