"How can they be so inhuman ?" She lifted Benny up in her arms.

"They'll never get you, my boy.
We'll save you--I'll save you!" The child moaned and clung to her neck.
"They are scouring the clearing now for Christians, and will search all the cabins.

I'm positive." "Will they come here ?" asked Nell, turning her blazing eyes on Heckewelder.
"Undoubtedly.

We must try to hide Benny.

Let me think; where would be a good place?
We'll try a dark corner of the loft." "No, no," cried Nell.
"Put Benny in Young's bed," suggested Jim.
"No, no," cried Nell.
"Put him in a bucket and let him down in the well," whispered Edwards, who had listened intently to the conversation.
"That's a capital place," said Heckewelder.