27/46 Every line and feature of his face had race in it; the high forehead, the square, protruding jaw, the stern mouth, the falcon eyes--all denoted the pride and unbending will of the last of the Tarhes. "Though he had the swiftness of the bounding deer or the flight of the eagle it would avail him not. The wild geese as they fly northward are not swifter than the warriors of Tarhe. The young paleface has cost the lives of some great warriors. What has he to say ?" "It was not my fault," answered Isaac quickly. |