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Updated: May 10, 2025
In the simplicity of his nature, he talked to that awful and dimly comprehended Father of all races and peoples, and asked Him to tell Omas what he should say, and do, and think. Unknown to him, To-wika his wife had listened to the teachings of the missionaries, and she had traversed further along the path of light than he.
In the red sash which passed around his waist were thrust a hunting knife and tomahawk, while one hand clasped a cumbersome rifle, which, like all firearms of those times, was used with ramrod and flintlock. Omas would have had a rather pleasing face had he let it alone; but his people love bright colors, and he was never seen without a lot of paint daubed over it.
Alice came forward on the other side. Neither understood the cause of the turmoil about them. They were not scared, but were awed into silence. "I saw Omas," explained Ben to his mother; "he saved me from the fate of many others." "Where is he?" "A little way off, under the bank, waiting with his canoe, to take us across the river.
Omas swam at the rear of the small canoe, as I told you, with Mrs. Ripley and her two children seated inside and balancing themselves with great care to prevent the heavily loaded craft from sinking or overturning.
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A second glance showed that it was one of the heavy rifles used by the pioneers a hundred years ago. The sight taken with what Omas had just said filled her heart with forebodings. She waited until the lad came up.
Omas spoke somewhat sharply to his child in the Delaware tongue. She startled, and looking at Alice, asked "Do yoo think me play well?" Alice was delighted to find she could make herself understood so easily. It was wonderful how she had learned to speak English so early in life. "I guess you can," was the ready reply of Alice; "your father can't begin to play as well.
"A long way through the wood." "Why does Omas leave you with the palefaces? You should be in your own wigwam many miles away." "He knows I am safe with them. He led us through the woods until he could leave us; then he went back to the great river between the mountains to help the other warriors fight." None of the three could doubt that the child was speaking the truth.
Red Wolf knew how deeply the grim warrior loved his only daughter, and he knew, too, how terrible was the wrath of the warrior. Omas had chosen to spare this family from the cruelty visited upon so many others. If Red Wolf dared to run the risk of rousing the vengeance of Omas, he must take the consequences. He shrank from doing so.
While Omas, the Delaware warrior, stood with his face turned away from the camp fire and looking off in the gloom, as if he was trying to discover something in the darkness, Mrs. Ripley was sure she knew what the trouble was: he was trying to decide whether he should stay longer with the little party or leave them to make the rest of their way through the woods without him.
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