Majesty; "but ask him what he doth with yon long stick."

The pages, whose interest in this savage overcame for the moment their
habit of etiquette, had approached little by little towards the end of
the hall where he stood. They watched eagerly and with a certain dread
of the unknown while he took from his pouch a white stick and his knife
from his girdle. The stick, they saw, was covered with tiny nicks; and
the Indian, looking from one person to another, made many more marks on
the wand.

"What is it thou dost, Uttamatomakkin?" asked Pocahontas.

"The werowance, thy father, told me to mark and let him know when I
return how many white folk there were in this land. I made a cut for
each one I counted at first, but my stick is all but covered now and the
Powhatan will not know how the palefaces swarm here like bees in a
hollow tree."

Pocahontas repeated to the Queen what he had said, and her Majesty was
greatly amused.

"But thou dost not plan to return to Virginia for a long; time yet?" she
asked.

"Much I like thy land, and its pleasant folk," answered Pocahontas as
she rose to go. "But the time draweth near for us to set sail westward
again. Farewell."

Then, accompanied by Lady De La Ware and Uttamatomakkin, she left the
audience chamber.

"The Lady Rebecca," said the Queen to her ladies when the curtains had
fallen behind Pocahontas, "is one of the gentlest ladies England hath
ever welcomed."

[Illustration: Decorative]

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