I thought of those long leagues of tangled forest-land stretching between us and the nearest border settlements, of ambuscades, of constant and harassing attack on the ever-thinning column as we fought for each foot of the way.

Once my mind dwelt for an instant upon the quiet home I had left on the banks of the Maumee; as my eyes filled at the memory I drove it from me, for the present necessity was all too stern to permit indulgence in such weakness.
'T was of the women and children I thought most, and their probable fate if we failed to win a passage.

The half-framed thought of such a possibility made my heart throb with dread apprehension, as I set my lips together in firm resolve.

What had become of Roger Matherson's orphan child?
'T was indeed strange that I could gain no trace of the little girl.

At the Fort they said she was with the Kinzies, at Kinzies' they told me she was at the Fort.