nor bound, but jumped, and
at every jump, sent out one of those hideous yells, that startled the
echoes from their retreats, and sent them forth with a hundred voices.

After whirling around the bed in this way a number of times, with
frantic howls he sprang upon the bed, and commenced snuffing round the
patient. Starting with terror, the poor boy half raised his head, and a
glance of intelligence lighted his sunken eye, as he cried, with
gestures of fear and horror, "The wolf! the wolf! Save me! oh, save
me!" and then sank back, fainting. They at first thought he was dead.

"You have killed him. Stop! for mercy's sake, stop!" cried Jane,
placing herself between the hideous looking object and Sidney.

"The young brave will live," said the chief, suddenly raising himself,
and speaking in his natural tones; and after divesting himself of the
skin, without another word, disappeared in the forest.

"Give me water," said Jane, "and chafe his hands while I bathe his
temples."

"Put some water in his mouth," said the trapper. "I fear we did wrong
in this affair. Poor boy! he thought the wolf had him again."

"We certainly ought not to have permitted it. The shock to the nervous
system must be terrible. Should he never have his reason again, I shall
never forgive myself. That Whirlwind would adhere to so ridiculous a
farce is not to be wondered at; but that we, born and bred among a
civilized nation, educated, and with claims to intelligence and
refinement, should consent to such mummery, is a libel on humanity."

"I believe you, Jane," said the trapper. "The poor boy was too ill to
bear it. As for myself, I think, when I was pow-wowed, I must have been
already on the mend. But these savages _do_ exert an influence over
one. I don't know how it is, but I never knew a person that had been
much with them, but what was forced to acknowledge it."

"See! he breathes. Edward, hide away that ugly skin that he need not
get another fright.--Sidney! Sidney! don't you know me!" said Jane, as
the invalid slowly opened his eyes, and then with a shudder, closed
them again.

"Come, Sidney, rouse up," said the trapper. "We are only waiting for
you to be able to travel in order to start for home. We cannot be far
from it now."

"The wolf! the wolf! take him away!" cried Sidney, in piteous accents,
and then once more fainted with terror and fright.

"Now, keep out of sight, every one of you, and be careful that not a
sound or noise