"Look! the spring!" "It is gone!" exclaimed Semitzin.
And, in truth, the water, with a strange, sucking noise, disappeared through the bottom of the basin, leaving the glistening cavity which had held it, green with slimy water-weed, empty.
"The time is near, indeed!" muttered the Indian.

"The second shock may cause the waters from which this spring came to rise as no living man has seen them rise, and make the sea return, and the treasure be lost.
In a few days all may be over.

But you, princess, must vanish: though the shock was but slight, some one might be awakened; and were you to be discovered, our plans might go wrong." "Must I depart so soon ?" said Semitzin, regretfully.

"The earth is beautiful, Kamaiakan: the smell of the flowers is sweet, and the stars in the sky are bright.

To feel myself alive, to breathe, to walk, to see, are sweet.