"Ugh! heap damn fools," he said with a dark scowl. "Little friend
much damn fool."
He straightened up his tall form and stood leering at her for some
seconds, then added:
"Little friend get killed, scalped, maybe."
The indescribable nobility of animal largeness, symmetry and
strength showed in his form and attitude, but the expression of
his countenance was absolutely repulsive--cold, hard, beastly.
He did not speak again, but turned quickly, and stooping low,
disappeared like a great brownish red serpent in the high grass,
which scarcely stirred as he moved through it.
Somehow that day made itself strangely memorable to Alice. She had
been accustomed to stirring scenes and sudden changes of
conditions; but this was the first time that she had ever joined
actively in a public movement of importance. Then, too, Long-
Hair's picturesque and rudely dramatic reappearance affected her
imagination with an indescribable force. Moreover, the pathetic
situation in the love affair between Rene and Adrienne had taken
hold of her conscience with a disturbing grip. But the shadowy
sense of impending events, of which she could form no idea, was
behind it all. She had not heard of Brandywine, or Bunker Hill, or
Lexington, or Concord; but something like a waft of their
significance had blown through her mind.
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