"That scoundrel, Braxton Wyatt, has made them for the aid of the Spanish, and to disclose all our weak points!" The fire blazed higher and they could see that on the white deerskin were drawn lines in colored pigment, and the rest they guessed.

It was true enough.

Braxton Wyatt, no mean draughtsman, had drawn, with the most elaborate care and attention to detail, maps on a large scale of every one of the infant settlements.

There was nothing about Wareville in particular that he did not show, and he also designated all the rivers, hills, and valleys as far as they were known.

With such aid a Spanish force, backed by cannon and the warriors, must triumph over every post in Kentucky.
"I never thought of this," whispered Paul.