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with emotion, " Give it me. The Government will
settle now." He waved me back, and said there
was something yet to be done first.
"Where is this John Wilson Mackenzie.?" said he.
" Dead."
" When did he die ? "
" He didn't die at all—he was killed."
" How.?"
" Tomahawked."
" Who tomahawked him } "
" Why, an Indian, of course. You didn't suppose
it was a superintendent of a Sunday school, did
you .?"
" No. An Indian, was it.? "
" The same."
" Name of the Indian ? "
" His name ? / don't know his name."
" Must have his name. Who saw the toma¬
hawking done ? "
" I don't know."
" You were not present yourself, then ?"
" Which you can see by my hair. I was absent."
"Then how doyouknow that Mackenzie is dead.?"
" Because he certainly died at that time, and I
have every reason to believe that he has been dead
ever since. I know he has, in fact."
"We must have proofs. Have you got the Indian ?''
" Of course not."
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