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The party could not go into camp on the burn-over, so Sanderson took charge of the pack-train and led it along the river, where the waters flowed toward the broad Ohio. In the meantime, the Morrises and Sam Barringford dug over the ashes where the trading-post had stood.
The departure was made in a keen, frosty air, which was as clear as it was invigorating. Henry and Dave's father accompanied those who were going as far as the burn-over on the Kinotah, and then watched them out of sight around a bend of the trail. "It looks a bit familiar to me now," said Dave to Barringford, as they rode along under the big trees.
If they have done that, he won't want to build again on the burn-over, but at some new spot where the forest hasn't been touched and timber is easy to get." "Do you suppose they burnt the post Jean Bevoir had?" "I reckon not. The Indians were very friendly with that rascal." The youths had now come to the edge of the woods.
Further still, they came to a long, burnt district, which made the heart of the trader turn sick with dread. "It is as I feared," he said sadly. "There has been a terrible burn-over here, and the district is no longer what it was." In less than half an hour's riding over the blackened ground, they came to where the long, comfortable trading-post had been located.
Morris and his companion lay through the burn-over, and along the trail previously followed. Good time was made, for their steeds were fresh, and by nightfall they had covered at least twenty-five miles. They went into camp at a convenient spot on the bank of a purling brook, where nothing came to disturb them while they slept.
And the trader gave a long sigh as he thought of the good woman who had died so many years before. Presently they came once more to the burn-over and then made their way straight to the ruins of the old trading-post. The spot looked more forlorn than ever, for the storms of the summer had washed some mud over part of the ground, and grass and weeds flourished amid the blackness.
"And you take good care of yourself during the winter," returned Henry. "It snows heavily out here, so they tell me. Don't you get lost in a snowstorm, like you did when you and Sam were journeying to Fort Oswego." Dave and James Morris accompanied the pair as far as the burn-over and then watched them as they disappeared over a distant ridge.
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