11/15 "I have just left him sleeping quietly in the council tent. Know you anything of what fate has befallen other of our friends of the garrison ?" Her eyes grew sad. "Only what little I have learned through the taunting of my own captor," she answered, her voice trembling. Both Captain Heald and his wife were sorely wounded, and they, with Lieutenant Helm, are prisoners somewhere in the camp; but the Lieutenant's wife is safe with the Silver-man's family across the river. The Indians hold these in hope of ransom, and wreak their vengeance upon the common soldiers who were so unfortunate as to fall into their hands alive. |