Are you hurt ?" "Not a scratch--which is more than many other poor fellows can say.
Where are the children ?" A tiny hand was slipped into his own, and looking down, there stood Linna, with her forefinger between her teeth, looking shyly up at him.
There could be no doubt she felt fully acquainted.
Alice came forward on the other side.

Neither understood the cause of the turmoil about them.

They were not scared, but were awed into silence.
"I saw Omas," explained Ben to his mother; "he saved me from the fate of many others." "Where is he ?" "A little way off, under the bank, waiting with his canoe, to take us across the river.
"He says we must hurry through the woods for the settlements on the Upper Delaware.

Every hour that we stay increases our danger." "Let me take Alice; lead the way." Clasping tight the hand of Linna, with his mother at his heels, Ben pushed for the point where he had left the Delaware a few minutes before.
Strange that though the distance was not far, and the confusion seemed to be increasing every minute, the little party had not gone half way when they were checked by one of the men that had been in the battle.

He was slightly wounded, and under the influence of liquor.
"Who's that you've got with you ?" he demanded, looking down at Linna, who saw no danger in the act.
"A friend of Alice and me." "She looks like an Injin," added the soldier, scowling threateningly at her; "if she is, I want her." "I told you she is a friend of ours--get out of my way!" The soldier's condition enabled Ben to tumble him over on his back by means of a vigorous shove.