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"Uncle!" she exclaimed, suddenly loosening her hold on Jim, and sitting up in bed, then she gazed wildly at the others. "Was it all a horrible dream?" Mr. Wells took her hand soothingly, but he did not attempt to answer her question. He looked helplessly at Heckewelder, but that missionary was intently studying the expression on Nell's face. "Part of it was a dream," he answered,impressively.
"They'll never get you, my boy. We'll save you I'll save you!" The child moaned and clung to her neck. "They are scouring the clearing now for Christians, and will search all the cabins. I'm positive." "Will they come here?" asked Nell, turning her blazing eyes on Heckewelder. "Undoubtedly. We must try to hide Benny. Let me think; where would be a good place? We'll try a dark corner of the loft."
Moreover, the evidence that they came from a more northern locality, added to that furnished by the pipes, seems to connect them with the Ohio mound-builders. In addition to this there is the tradition of the Delawares, given by Heckewelder, which appears to relate to no known tribe unless it be the Cherokees.
Rather than almost anything else, he desired to please her, to strengthen her; yet how could he shirk his duty? "Nellie, what is it you fear?" he asked, holding her hands tightly. "Oh, I don't know what everything. Uncle is growing weaker every day. Look at Mr. Young; he is only a shadow of his former self, and this anxiety is wearing Mr. Heckewelder out. He is more concerned than he dares admit.
As they pursued their travels, partly by land and partly by water, sometimes near and at other times on the great salt-water lake, as they call the sea, they discovered the great river which we call the Delaware. This quotation, although not the entire tradition as given by Heckewelder, will suffice for the present purpose.
Starting with this basis, and taking the mound testimony, of which not even a tithe has been presented, the tradition of the Cherokees, the statement of Haywood, the Delaware tradition as given by Heckewelder, the Bark Record as published by Brinton and interpreted by Hale, and the close resemblance between the names Tallegwi and Chellakee, it would seem that there can remain little doubt that the two peoples were identical.
It's as much as our lives are worth to have him found here," cried Heckewelder in a fierce whisper, as he darted toward the door. "All right, all right, in a moment," he called out, fumbling over the bar. He opened the door a moment later and when Jim Girty and Deering entered he turned to his friends with a dread uncertainty in his haggard face.
She kept the easy, even tenor of her life, always kind and gracious in her quaint way, and precisely the same to both her lovers. No doubt she well knew that each possessed, under all his rough exterior, a heart of gold. One day the genial Heckewelder lost, or pretended to lose, his patience. "Say, you worthy gentlemen are becoming ornamental instead of useful.
In the expressive Indian phrase, they were "made women." It was deemed to be their right and duty, when in their opinion the strife had lasted long enough, to interfere and bring about a reconciliation. The knowledge of this fact led the Lenapes, in aftertimes, to put forward a whimsical claim to dignity, which was accepted by their worthy but credulous historian, Heckewelder.
"No, no," cried Nell. "Put Benny in Young's bed," suggested Jim. "No, no," cried Nell. "Put him in a bucket and let him down in the well," whispered Edwards, who had listened intently to the conversation. "That's a capital place," said Heckewelder. "But might he not fall out and drown?" "Tie him in the bucket," said Jim. "No, no, no," cried Nell.
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