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The location of the sun in the sky, the appearance of the bark and moss, and the tops of certain trees, enabled the young woodman to keep a pretty true course. He remarked, with a laugh, that if there was any likelihood of going wrong, Linna would correct him.
He speedily found a canoe, probably his own. It had been so skillfully hidden among the dense undergrowth that one might have passed within a couple of paces without seeing it. He picked it up as if it were a toy boat and set it down in the water. "Go bring moder bring Alice bring Linna." Ben was off like a shot, for he knew there was not a minute to throw away.
She did not speak, but when her escort sat down on the grass, she did the same. "Linna, do you know how to play Jack Stones?" asked Alice, picking up the pebbles. Linna shook her head quickly several times, but her lips remained mute. "Your father thought he knew how, but he don't; he doesn't play fair, either. Let me show you, so you can beat him when you go home."
It seems to me we ought to change our course, to be certain of not meeting him again." "As you think best." "We have had a good rest. Come, girls, we must be off." Taking the lead as before, Ben strode down the incline, bearing more to the left than he had been doing. All smiled at Linna, for she noticed the change on the instant. "You go wrong," she said; "dat not right way."
The fears of the fugitives were well founded. The three red men were near them for a long while before they showed themselves. It was very much as Mrs. Ripley had said. They were so sure of the prize that they trifled with them. Linna reached the spot where the warriors were standing directly after one of the number had sent a bullet through the bear.
"He says we must hurry through the woods for the settlements on the Upper Delaware. Every hour that we stay increases our danger." "Let me take Alice; lead the way." Clasping tight the hand of Linna, with his mother at his heels, Ben pushed for the point where he had left the Delaware a few minutes before.
The dusky child looked up from where she was sitting on the ground, playing with Alice. "Want turkey eh?" she asked. "Yes; have you any to sell?" "Me get you one." Mother and son stared in amazement. They could not believe she was in earnest. She saw it and, with a grin, added "Omas showed Linna how get turkey." "What can she be driving at?" asked the puzzled Ben.
I am at some disadvantage in giving an account of the remarkable interview between the little Delaware girl, Linna, and the three hostile warriors who had trailed the Ripleys to the stream in the wilderness across which they had just leaped in the effort to continue their flight from Wyoming to the Upper Delaware.
It was a fortunate discovery made by Linna! With the aid of the bright glare, it could not take him long to identify the little party as fugitives fleeing eastward, though it may be questioned whether they learned that it consisted of one large boy, an adult woman, and two small children. They were in the battle yesterday.
Red Wolf was afraid that when the fearful Delaware warrior thundered down on them, he would not give his brother time to explain matters before sinking his tomahawk into his brain. Manifestly, therefore, but one course was open for him, and he took it without a second's delay. He fled for his life. The Senecas, however, stood their ground. The signal of Omas sounded again, and Linna answered it.
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