41/46 I'll allow Injuns is bad enough; but I never hearn tell of one abusin' a white woman, as mayhap you mean. It's men of our own color, renegades like this Girty, as do worse'n murder." Here was the amazing circumstance of Lewis Wetzel, the acknowledged unsatiable foe of all redmen, speaking a good word for his enemies. One more look, an' then we're off," said Wetzel. He strode up and down the sandy beach; examined the willows, and scrutinized the sand. Suddenly he bent over and picked up an object from the water. |