I bees back burty soon." So saying, Hans passed out of the wigwam on his way to return to Oonomoo.

His prolonged conversation with Miss Prescott had attracted the attention of the Indians who were lingering outside, and several asked him its purport.

To these he invariably replied, "she didn't know wheder it was going for to rain or not, but she fought it would do one or toder." From his long residence among the Shawnees and his family connection with them, Hans Vanderbum was not suspected of disaffection.

Indeed, it could not properly be said that he felt thus toward them.

He would not willingly do anything to injure them any more than he would have fought against his own race.