The three, in bearing the alarm, might achieve, too, a task that would lighten, in a measure, the terror along the border.

It would be a relief at least to do something while the government disagreed and delayed.
"Let's start at once for Fort Refuge," he said, "and help them to get away before the storm breaks.

What do you say, Tayoga ?" "It is what we ought to do," replied the Onondaga, in his precise English of the schools.
"Come," said Willet, leading the way, and the three, leaving the fire behind them, marched rapidly into the north and east.

Two miles gone, and they stopped to study the sun, by which they meant to take their reckoning.
"The fort lies there," said Willet, pointing a long finger, "and by my calculations it will take us about five days and nights to reach it, that is, if nothing gets in our way." "You think, then," asked Robert, "that the French and Indians are already spreading a net ?" "The Indians might stop, Robert, my lad, to exult over their victory and to celebrate it with songs and dances, but the French leaders, whose influence with them is now overwhelming, will push them on.

They will want to reap all the fruits of their great triumph by the river.