A groundless fear; the tokens may have lied;
Some other wolf may be upon our trail.”
“Waban was hunted,” quickly he replied,
“Far tow’rd the white man’s town through yonder vale;
When there, the priest oft in his pathway stept,
And watched the wigwam where the white hand slept.”
XVIII.
Sire Williams shuddered thus to realize
What he had hoped was but his fancy’s fear;