Then ag'in, he's got Simon Girty, his brother, an' almost the whole redskin tribe behind him.

Injuns stick close to a white man that has turned ag'inst his own people, an' Jim Girty hain't ever been ketched.

Howsumever, I heard last trip thet he'd been tryin' some of his tricks round Fort Henry, an' thet Wetzel is on his trail.

Wal, if it's so thet Lew Wetzel is arter him, I wouldn't give a pinch o' powder fer the white-redskin's chances of a long life." No one spoke, and Jeff, after knocking the ashes from his pipe, went down to the raft, returning shortly afterward with his blanket.

This he laid down and rolled himself in it.