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Show - 1*7 - heavy guard. I finally persuaded him to leave in your canoe and bring heln from your oeoole. He finally left under protest. I am desperate with fear for us." Thev talked In hushed voices until the first ravs of dawn lit the whare; and with dawn they heard footstens annroaching. Moana squeezed Roa's hand, and whisnered into his ear. "They come for you. I must leave. I shall do what I can. My soirit is with vou. Kia kaha, Be strong." And she was gone. Foughly, "oa's wrists and ankles were unbound and he was nulled to his feet. An unfriendly voice barked, "Come with us." Before full light of dav was unon the world, he was taken Into the center of a circle of hostile faces. Thev were faces who had no sympathy for his plight, and the same ones his ox«m x^arriors had attacked not long nast. He felt cold needles of fear through his body, but he vowed to himself not to cower before these peonle. An older x«rarrior arose. He wore the cloak and symbols of a chieftain. "I am Heke, rangatira of this tribe," he said in a voice of authority. "Are vou not fr"F a tribe |