Chapter 2
THE MARRIAGE AND THE BREAKING UP.Remembering love and all the dead delight,
And all that time was sweet with for a space.
Swinburne.
After Cecil had been borne from the council-grove, the Indians,
rousing themselves from the spell of the strange scene they had
just witnessed, looked around for Tohomish the seer. He was gone.
No one could remember seeing him go, yet he was missing from his
accustomed place, and never was he seen or heard of more. Upon his
fate, lost in the common ruin that engulfed his race, the legend
casts no ray of light. It is certain that the fall of the Bridge,
with which his life was interwoven, had a disastrous effect upon
him, and as he said, that the strength of his life was broken. It
is probable that the orator-seer, feeling within himself
