Of course she did not find the locket.

It was miles and miles away close to the heart of her lover.

If she could but have known this, it would have comforted her.

Beverley had intended to leave it with Jean, but in his haste and excitement he forgot; writing the note distracted his attention; and so he bore Alice's picture on his breast and in his heart while pursuing his long and perilous journey.
Four of Hamilton's scouts came upon Beverley twenty miles south of Vincennes, but having the advantage of them, he killed two almost immediately, and after a running fight, the other two attempted escape in a canoe on the Wabash.

Here, firing from a bluff, he wounded a third.