I'm committed to this expedition and there my heart lies, too.

Willet and Tayoga go with it.

So do Black Rifle and Rogers, I think, and Colonel Johnson, who is also my good friend, is to lead it.

I couldn't stay behind and consider myself a true man." Master Benjamin Hardy sighed.
"Doubtless you are right, Robert," he said, "and perhaps at your age I should have taken the same view, despite Jonathan's assertion that my true ways are the ways of commerce and gain.

Nevertheless, my interest in this struggle is great.