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"Who are you? Why this attack?"

"I am you friend Away, if you value your liberty, and er" With ht birds, the inmates of the tents

arot into the saddle

No one questioned the graceful Indian boy further There was

soestures as

he waited for their departure, that suspicion could not lurk in any

mind

"Hark!" cried the unknown "They come Hear you not the dull trample

of their hoofs?"

"By the saints in heaven, yes, and I see the frolass

"Brave lad, e our liberty to you; yet wherefore, I am sure, I

cannot tell"

But the boy only raised his hand, as if i silence upon that

point

"You are by no means safe from the Indians yet They will scour the

plains, and on this untrodden prairie you cannot conceal your trail

My advice is that you make no delay, but push on to Fort Pitt, which

is only about twelve miles distant"

"Of all points this is the one that I should most desire to be at,"