Paul and Braxton Wyatt were kept in the center of the group, but they were permitted to talk as much as they pleased, and Paul was not annoyed by any blow or kick.
"Have you any idea how far it is to their village, Braxton ?" Paul asked.
"A long distance," replied Wyatt.

"We shall not be there under two weeks, and as the party may turn aside for hunting or something else, it may be much longer." "It will give Henry and Ross and the others more time to rescue us," said Paul.
Braxton Wyatt shrugged his shoulders.
"I wouldn't put much hope in that if I were you, Paul," he said.

"This band is very strong.

Since the two parties joined it numbers forty warriors, and our friends could do nothing.

We must pretend to like them, to fall in with their ways, and to behave as if we liked the wild life as well as that back in the settlements, and in time would like it better." "I could never do that," said Paul.