Five cold winter days and nights came and passed, yet no relief came to the imprisoned family.

They dare not move out, fearing the Indians would see them and come at night and murder them.

The sixth day Crabtree, who lived some miles distant from where the Godfreys had resided, having heard of the attack of the savages and the destruction they had caused, made his way to the scene of the ruins.

He could find no trace of the Godfreys and was returning by the border of the lake to his log cabin, when he saw the sloop far in the distance like a speck on the frozen surface of the lake.

He hastened out to where she lay.