They said the forest was free from peril today.

The Indians have gone off yonder on some enterprise of their own, and the English are lying within their lines far enough away.
I begged and prayed, and at last they gave way.

My brother and the men are after a fine young deer they sighted.

I bid them leave me.
I was not afraid.

I thought the worst that could happen would be that I came face to face with a party of Rangers, and that was exactly what I have longed to do ever since I arrived." The girl looked up smiling into the faces of the bronzed, stalwart men standing before her; then she seated herself upon a fallen tree and motioned them to be seated likewise.
"I want to talk," she said; "let us sit down and be sociable.