Crossword-Solution: HEYWARD 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

But he stops; the private path by which we are to journey is, doubtless, at hand.” The conjecture of Major Heyward was true.

Perhaps the rapidity of the changes from one of these paces to the other created an optical illusion, which might thus magnify the powers of the beast; for it is certain that Heyward, who possessed a true eye for the merits of a horse, was unable, with his utmost ingenuity, to decide by what sort of movement his pursuer worked his sinuous way on his footsteps with such persevering hardihood.

The frown which had gathered around the handsome, open, and manly brow of Heyward, gradually relaxed, and his lips curled into a slight smile, as he regarded the stranger.

Nay, throw aside that frown, Heyward, and in pity to my longing ears, suffer him to journey in our train.

The Indian muttered a few words in broken English to Heyward, who, in his turn, spoke to the stranger; at once interrupting, and, for the time, closing his musical efforts.