In case of her escape, Hans Vanderbum was to be held responsible for it, his life paying the forfeit.
"Dat is quare," he muttered.

"I guess Oonomoo can fix it, if dey _does_ do it." It perhaps is well to remark here, by way of explanation, that the time in which the incidents occurred, which we intend to relate, was a few years subsequent to the great victory of Anthony Wayne over the combined forces of the various Indian tribes in the West.

As a consequence of this splendid achievement and the no less splendid victory gained in the renowned treaty of Greenville, a long and almost undisturbed peace along the frontier was inaugurated, where, for years before, all had been strife of the most revolting kind.

But, profound peace and security never existed on the border until the final removal of the Indians beyond the Mississippi.

Isolated families, small bodies of men, and the lonely traveler through the forest, never were secure from the stealthy attacks of the red-men.