d eagerness to get away from the hunters, plunged head

ompletely out of him. He felt something heavy come d

father had hauled him from under the wreck

n?" demanded Jame

wer. "But something hit me in the-

ringford and H

ey lay h

re you are not injured? I thou

right, thank goodness." And Dave st

excitedly. Some wanted to join in the hunt, but t

alone," said Sanderson. "Th

Buffalo. "My white brothers c

. Then, as the storm, increased, all crouched in the shelters they h

rate," said Dave, smacking his lips. "It wo

r strong, like elk's me

food, on such a ro

re isn't a bette

more settlements to the westward. I look for the time when w

at," said the front

risked Ja

it, that's why, Mr. Mo

r they kin sell hides an

owns or cities. You won'

hem Western co

re folks come over from England, and Germany, and France, t

g up the war hatchet," put in

ut," said James Morris. "They may fight all they please-in

our country will get in

a

see towns on the Mississippi. About the great Western countries I know nothing, nor does any other white man. I suppose th

ns won't live as the wh

"We might get along

when the spirit stirs him, he must fight; and if he cannot fight the white man he will fight his fellow Indians. You have often heard Whit

side going to the French and the others fighting under White Buf

at Henry and Barringford had found the buf

't come back until morning," suggested James Morris. "

"Sam may hunt in the wet if he

those who were missing, for it was felt they would com

and a moment later Sam Barringford came into view, with downcast fac

p. "So you've got back at last. Did

frontiersman. His voice grew husky. "Henry-he is-m

don't mean he is-is-" He too fai

appened after he slipped

ingf

ou mean to say

ut it looks juberou

s, and now all in the camp gathered around

e grew more talkative, and he related al

n some sort o' shape," he concluded. "But I couldn't find nuthin', not even his

father was scarcely less affected. The frontiersmen had little to say, and the Indians, with the excep

s spoken. When matters of importance wer

forward and make a searc

ord had stop

tioned James Morris. "I know you are keen on the t

o," returned the Indian, usin

in Barringford. "The man to find Henry an'

you take me along?"

nk you had better remain

ust find Henry. P

"The journey will not be pleasant, but if Henry is

you, or a lantern

t get wet. Then another torch was lit, and the old frontiersman gave the Indi

ng of that land," said the c

Dave. "We want to find H

fore morning. And also a bandage and some stimulants for Henry, in case he is badl

he and White Buffalo had all the articles mentioned. Each went armed with

ris, when they were ready to leave. "If you are not back by th

White Buffalo," replied Dave; and this s

n to the stream by way o

you do you may

on that fact. Nevertheless, if he had been better able to walk he would probably

e youth and the Indian had departed. "It distresses me

eart he is alive," re

he is

for the west some time later-after I have given my brother a