Then he lifted the little one from the ground; she threw her arms around his neck, and he pressed her to his breast and kissed her several times with great warmth.

Then he set her down, and she ran laughing into the house, while he strode off to the woods.
But at the moment of entering them he stopped abruptly, wheeled about, and walked slowly back toward the cabin.
Upon the return of Linna, Mrs.Ripley stepped to the front door to look for her son.

He was not in sight, but Omas had stopped again hardly a rod distant.

He stood a moment, looking fixedly at her, and then beckoned with his free hand for her to approach.
Without hesitation she stepped off the broad flat stone and went to him.
"What is it, Omas ?" she asked in an undertone, pausing in front of him, and gazing up into the grim, painted countenance.
The Delaware returned the look for a few seconds, as if studying how to say what was in his mind.

Then in a voice lower even than hers, he said--"You--little girl--big boy--go way soon--must not stay here." "Why do you say that, Omas ?" "Iroquois like leaves on trees--white men, call Tories--soon come down here--kill all white people--kill you--kill little girl, big boy--if you stay here." The pioneer's wife had heard the same rumors for days past.