They looked like it, too.

I never hern tell of Wetzel advisin' any one before; but I'll say if he told me to do a thing, by Gosh! I'd do it." "As men, we might very well take the advice given us, but as preachers we must stay here to do all we can for these Christian Indians.

One thing more: will you help us ?" "I reckon I'll stay here to see the thing out," answered Williamson.
Edwards made a mental note of the frontiersman's evasive answer.
Jim had, meanwhile, made the acquaintance of a young minister, John Christy by name, who had lost his sweetheart in one of the Chippewa raids, and had accompanied the Williamson expedition in the hope he might rescue her.
"How long have you been out ?" asked Jim.
"About four weeks now," answered Christy.

"My betrothed was captured five weeks ago yesterday.

I joined Williamson's band, which made up at Short Creek to take the trail of the flying Chippewas, in the hope I might find her.