It was no small triumph to protect the fugitive train, and so they would win many more.

He already saw them through the flame of his sanguine temperament, and the glow of the leaping fires helped in the happy effect.

All around him were cheerful faces and he heard the chatter of happy voices, their owners happy because they believed themselves released from a great and imminent danger.
"Has anything been heard of Black Rifle ?" Robert asked of Tayoga.
"He has not come back," replied the Onondaga, "but they think he will be here in the morning." The dawn brought instead fifty dusky figures bare to the waist and painted in all the terrible imagery of Indians who go to war.

Some of the women cried out in fright, but Tayoga said: "Have no fear.

These be friends.