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When we march, you will go back to Schenectady or to Albany with the ladies of the garrison, and wait there some word of our fate. "If we win through, I swear to you that if your mother be there in Catharines-town I will bring news of her, or, God willing, bring her herself to you." I rose and aided her to stand; and her hands remained limply in mine.
Reconnoitring Catharines-town from the north, they must have very quickly discovered the swarm of partly crippled hornets, so unexpectedly infesting the nest; and we felt sure that they had returned in safety to watch and keep in touch with the beaten army. Yet, beaten at Chemung, exhausted after a rapid and disorderly retreat, this same defeated Tory army was still formidable and dangerous.
On Monday morning, we move through it, straight northward, following the stream, and by Monday night we scout to Catharines-town." "That is clear," he said, lifting his handsome head from his hands. "And the signal should come from me. Listen, Loskiel; you shall expect that signal between midnight of Monday and dawn."
For this is Amochol's frontier; and by tomorrow night we enter Catharines-town thou and I, little Lois two Hidden Children one hidden by the Western Gate, one by the Eastern Gate's dark threshold, 'hidden in the husks....How shall it be with us now, O little rosy spirit of the home-wood? My Indians will ask. What shall I say to them concerning you?"
On every side lofty hills enclosed the valley, heavily timbered to their crests; and through the intervale the rill ran, dashing out of the pass and away into that level, wooded strip to the fern-glade which lay midway between the height of land and Catharines-town; and there joined the large stream which flowed north.
"Naturally." "With me also?" "You are a Mason." "Also," snarled Butler, "I am an officer in his British Majesty's service. Now, answer the questions I put to you. How many cannon did your Yankee General send back to Tioga after Catharines-town was burnt, and how many has he with him?" "Do you suppose that I am going to answer your questions?" said Boyd, amused.
"Otherwise, no Seneca will await your coming I mean there will be no considerable force of Senecas to oppose you in their towns, only the usual scalping parties hanging just outside the smoke veil. All will retire before you. And how is Amochol to be destroyed at Catharines-town unless he be struck at secretly before your advance is near enough to frighten him?"
But this trail, since we had left the sunny glade, had become harder under foot, and far more easy to travel; and we made fast time along it, so that early in the afternoon we suddenly came out into that vast belt of firm ground and rocky, set with tremendous oaks and pines and hemlocks, on the northern edge of which lies Catharines-town, on both banks of the stream.
At dawn I was awakened by the noise of horses and cattle and the shouting of the grass-guard, where they were rounding to the half-wild stock from Catharines-town, and our own hoofed creatures which had strayed in the flat-woods. A great cloud of smoke was belching up above the trees to the northward; and we knew that Catharines-town was on fire, and the last lurking enemy gone.
"With my honour, General." "Very well, sir.... And your Mohican Loup he can perform what he has promised? Guide us straight to Catharines-town, I mean?" "He has said it." "Aye but what is your opinion of that promise?" "A Siwanois Sagamore never lies." "You trust him?" "Perfectly. We are blood-brothers, he and I." "Oho!" said the General, nodding. "That was cunningly done, sir." "No, sir.
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