But here he was snatched from the very pit of death, and all the others had been saved from a like fate.
"If I'd known that you were alive and uncaptured, Henry," he said, "I'd never have given up hope.

It was a wonderful thing you did to start the chain that drew us all away." "It's no more than Sol or Tom or any of you would have done," said Henry.
"We might have tried it," said Long Jim Hart, "but I ain't sure that we'd have done it.

Likely ez not, ef it had been left to me my scalp would be dryin' somewhat in the breeze that fans a Mohawk village.

Say, Sol, how wuz it that you talked Onondaga when you played the part uv that Onondaga runner.

Didn't know you knowed that kind uv Injun lingo." Shif'less Sol drew himself up proudly, and then passed a thoughtful hand once or twice across his forehead.
"Jim," he said, "I've told you often that Paul an' me hez the instincts uv the eddicated.