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Yet, with these handfuls, before our arrival he had already cleaned out Torlock; he had already charged through the fla the charge, cocked-hat in hand, reers that he could catch in his hat all the balls that the renegades could fire Bob McKean, the scout, fell that day; nine s, were found scalped; yet the handful under Willett turned on Torlock and seized a hundred head of cattle for the fa, Cobleskill, and Little Falls were ablaze; Willett's trail lay through their sades' rear, his bullets drove the raiders headlong fro to the edges of invasion, watching, waiting, listening in the still places for the first faint sound of that advance that : Sir John already harrying the Sacandaga; Haldimand reported on the eastern lakes; Ross and the Butlers expected fro up the Hudson fro the entire north to the torch This hat confronted Tryon County; but the arht between fitful stor the north from east to west, far as the eye could see

Colonel Willett had lighted his clay pipe, and now, map spread across his knees andthe discolored and wrinkled paper

"Where is Adriutha, Carus?" he drawled

I pointed out the watercourse, traced in blue, showing him the ancient site and the falls near by

"And Carenay?"

Again I pointed

"Oswaya?"

"Only tradition ree," I said "Even in the Great Rite those who pronounce the na more than that it once existed It is so with Kayaderos and Danascara; nobody nos exactly where they were"

"And Thendara?"

"Thendara was, and will be, but is not In the Great Rite of the Iroquois that place where the first cereins is called Thendara, to commemorate the ancient place where first the Holder of Heaven talked face to face with the League's founder, Hiawatha"

The hawk-faced veteran smoked and studied the map for a while; then he removed the pipe fro ste and traced the path again and yet again, never uttering a word; and presently I began to comprehend him