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There was an excited activity on the part of McKee, Elliott, Caldwell and Girty and they were endeavoring to keep the tribes away from the American treaties.
Kotoxen was for the death penalty; the implacable Pipe for nothing less than burning at the stake. Not one was for returning the missionary to his Christian Indians. Girty and Elliott, though requested to speak, maintained an ominous silence. Wingenund strode with thoughtful mien before his council. He had heard all his wise chiefs and his fiery warriors. Supreme was his power.
"My lad, don't make such wishes," said Colonel Zane, earnestly. "You were indeed fortunate to escape, and I can well understand your feelings. There is nothing I should like better than to see Girty over the sights of my rifle; but I never hunt after danger, and to look for Girty is to court death." "But Wetzel "
"We must go out and make all the noise we can. Then all the other men here in the fort can be ready for Girty when he comes, and I know he will come." "I will carry the message to Boone," volunteered one of the younger men named Bell.
Between here and Fort Pitt there is only one settlement, Yellow Creek, and most of its inhabitants are survivors of abandoned villages farther up the river. Last summer we had the Moravian Massacre, the blackest, most inhuman deed ever committed. Since then Simon Girty and his bloody redskins have lain low." "You must always have had a big force," said Sheppard.
Having thus succeeded in his benevolent purpose, Girty lost no time in attending to the comfort of his friend. He led him into his own wigwam, and, from his own store, gave him a pair of moccasins and leggins, a breechcloth, a hat, a coat, a handkerchief for his neck, and another for his head.
Nothing that Girty could say availed, and he was left to tell his friend that he must die. Kenton's sentence was to be now carried out at Sandusky, and with five Indian guards he set out for that point.
"I thank you for your food and drink, but I think I shall feel more at home in any prison that you may have than here among those who are planning the destruction of my people." Girty was about to speak, but de Peyster waved his hand, and the words stopped unsaid. "Take him to the jail, Holderness," he said to one of the younger officers. "He can wait there.
I'm going to be a king, I tell you, a woods king, and I'll make you a prince, if you stick to me." A glow appeared in the eyes of Braxton Wyatt. "I'll stick to you fast enough," he said. "Do it," said Girty in a tone of confidence, "and you can have all the revenge you want upon the boy, Ware, his comrades, and all the rest of them. Maybe you won't have to wait long, either."
"Who are they?" cried she again, turning from one to the other, rapidly, with an anxious look: "who are the victims of the renegade Girty?"
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