Besides, we could spare 'em, ez it took cunnin' an' not numbers to do what we had to do." "What's our next step ?" asked Paul, who was in the highest of spirits--his imagination, with its usual vivid rebound, now painted everything in glowing colors.
"We are going northward," said Henry.
"Northward ?" "Yes, it's necessary.

There's some great movement on foot among the tribes.

It's not the Shawnees alone, but the Miamis and Wyandots and others as well, though the Shawnees are leaders.

War belts are passing between all the tribes, and we think they are joining together to destroy all the white settlements in Kentucky." "An' some renegades are helpin' 'em," said Tom Ross.

"They may hev better luck than they did when they attacked Wareville." "Yes, an' there's Braxton Wyatt," said Shif'less Sol sorrowfully, "He's cunnin' an' revengeful, an' he'll do us a power o' harm.