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Updated: June 21, 2025
"Hold! you strike the white man's friend!" The excellent English startled Kent, and he relaxed his hold. "Who are you?" he demanded. "Pequanon, the white man's friend." "What did you come nosin' out here fur then?" Kent's knees were upon the arms of the Indian, while he was seated upon his breast. The hunter loosed his grasp. "The pale-faced maiden. Pequanon wished to save her."
Ever after this Pequanon remained in the lodge during the night, and Rosalind was careful to keep at a safe distance from the sides of it. She saw in the fact that he had given her, the cause of the hatred upon the part of the females toward her. They had seen the favor with which she was regarded by numbers of the warriors, and were filled with jealousy at it.
"Say, you, you'll get into trouble, won't you, if you go back?" queried Kent. "The Great Spirit will protect me. Farewell." "Wait, Pequanon," said Rosalind, rising from her seat. "Pequanon has only paid his debt to the pale-faced maiden." The Indian was gone. Rosalind sunk back upon her seat in tears.
"Wal, see here, old red-skin, I'm after her. You's sayin' as how you's her friend. Mind to help?" The Indian answered in the affirmative. "Wal, I'll let you up, pervidin' you'll go and bring her out. What you say?" "Is it her friends that wish her?" "You've hit it there. Goin' to help?" "Pequanon will lay his life down for the captive."
"And gave me a fate that is worse." "He went with his brothers when they burned your home, but he did not help. He went to save your life, and did do it. When the tomahawk was lifted over your head, he caught the arm and turned it aside. When your blood was called for, Pequanon swore that it should not be had, and he has kept his word.
Several of the warriors, since her first appearance among them, had shown a desire to obtain Rosalind for a wife; and although it may seem strange that she herself was not aware of the fact, Pequanon had noticed it from the commencement, and now for the first time warned her of it. One who suspected that he should be disappointed, had taken the means to procure the revenge that we have mentioned.
On they hurried, half running, over the tangled underwood and fallen trees until they paused upon the brink of the river. Here, to the surprise and joy of all, Pequanon running to a clump of bushes pulled forth a large canoe and shoved it into the stream. The others needed no admonition to use it. "Here," said their guide, "we part. May the great Spirit guide you."
The marks of a person's knee and moccasin could be seen upon the soft earth, and there was no doubt that her life had been sought. Pequanon informed her of something that surprised and alarmed her as much as this.
The movements of both with respect to themselves were as much at fault as though they were inexperienced youngsters. The noise of Pequanon was so slight that it failed to awake either Rosalind or any of the inmates; yet Kent heard it distinctly, and crouched down upon the ground and listened. In an instant he caught the step upon the outside.
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