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Updated: June 20, 2025
Faith sat down on the floor beside her, greatly to Kashaqua's satisfaction, and told her about Esther Eldridge's visit, about the bear coming into the kitchen, and of how she had jumped from the window and run to the mill to tell her father. Kashaqua grunted her approval now and then. "And what do you think, Kashaqua!
Kashaqua repacked the basket with what remained of the food, and with a pleasant nod to Faith declared she would "sleep a little," and curled herself up near the shelter. Faith looked about the rough camp, and peered down the trail.
For she had wondered how long it would be before they could get news that Kashaqua had kept her promise, and that Faith had reached her aunt's house in safety. In the surprise and excitement of this new decision neither Faith nor her parents had much time to think about their separation.
Kashaqua is proud enough since we proved our confidence in her by sending you here in her charge." Faith told him about Louise, and was surprised to see her father's face grave and troubled. For Mr. Carew had heard of the shoemaker, and was sure that he was an English spy, and feared that his daughter's friendship with Faith might get the Scotts into some trouble. "She is my dearest friend.
As Faith looked at him she was sure that this creature had dragged Kashaqua off into the woods, and that he might turn and seize her as soon as he had finished with the basket. "Kashaqua! Kashaqua!" she called hopelessly. "What shall I do? What shall I do?" There was a rustle of leaves close behind her and the Indian woman darted into the clearing.
Not great ways from Fort," responded Kashaqua. "Me take little girl safe to Scott's wigwam." "That's right, Kashaqua," said Mr. Carew. "Then me come back to mill and get meal an' get pie," said Kashaqua. "Of course. I will make you the finest pie you ever tasted," said Mrs. Carew, with a little sigh of relief.
Long afterward they discovered that Kashaqua had started directly back over the trail, and had reached the Carews' cabin, with her message of Faith's safe arrival at her aunt's house, early the next morning. "Come in, dear child. You are indeed welcome. Your father's letter reached me but yesterday," said Aunt Prissy, putting her arm about Faith and leading her into the house.
As Kashaqua with swift strokes of her paddle sent the canoe over the water Faith sat silent, with eyes fixed on the looming battlements of the fort, on the high mountain behind it, and thought to herself that no other little girl had ever taken such a journey.
The Indian woman had drawn the birch-bark canoe from its hiding-place in the underbrush, and the light craft now rested on the waters of the lake. The baskets and bundles were in the canoe, and Kashaqua, paddle in hand, stood waiting for her little companion. "Where's Nooski?" asked Faith, looking about for the young bear.
There was so much to say that Faith hardly knew where to begin, after she had listened to all her father had to tell her of her mother. "I would have come before, but I have been waiting for Kashaqua to come and stay with your mother," said Mr. Carew. "She appeared last night, and will stay until I return. And your mother could have no better protector.
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