36/43 A pair of extraordinary black eyes were blazing from her ancient, wrinkled face. Her hand rose in a kind of military salute, and looking straight at Harry she exclaimed in a high-pitched but strong voice: "Welcome, welcome, governor, to our house! It is a long time since I've seen you, but I knew that you would come again!" "Why, what's the matter, Aunt Suse ?" asked Jarvis anxiously. "He, who was the great defender of the frontier against the Indians! But he looks like a boy again! Yet I would have known him anywhere!" The blazing eyes and tense voice of the old woman held Harry. She pointed with a withered forefinger which she held aloft and he felt as if an electric current were passing from it to him. A chill ran down his back and the hair lifted a little on his head. |