This new war with England will not pass without atrocities along the border, and in my judgment we are now on the eve of a general uprising of the savages.

It will surely come with the first news of British success, and 't is the fear of reverses at Dearborn that has hurried me westward.

You, sir," and he turned toward me, "are young, but it is evident you have been bred to the frontier, so you will realize what it may mean to us if we be caught in the Illinois country by such an uprising." I bowed, deeply impressed by his earnestness.
"I have, indeed, seen something of savage warfare, and know much of its horror," I replied stoutly.

"Yet what you say of the possible future only makes more urgent my duty to press on." "And you ?" he asked De Croix.
"Faith, Captain," was the instant reply, "it is the gentle hand of love which leads me westward, and never yet did a true Frenchman hesitate in such a quest because danger lurked between." Wells smiled grimly.
"Then my conscience is left clear," he exclaimed heartily; "and if you ride with me to death, 'tis of your own choosing.

However, glad enough we have cause to be thus to gain two more fighting men.