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I felt greatly relieved when he at length returned with the last rifles. "But we want our saddles!" whispered Dick. I told Folkard where to find them. "You shall have them," he answered, and again set off. I much feared that he might be discovered, as he would have to go into the camp itself, and the slightest sound might awaken our enemies.
A youngster wants to know how to build a boat, and you find him Folkard on Boats, or Frazar's Sail-boats, which describe and figure various styles of water-craft.
The first use he made of his returning strength, was to tell us that he had been captured by Indians, and kept a prisoner ever since, exactly as old Folkard had supposed; that he was not as badly treated as he expected, but so strictly watched, that in spite of all the attempts he had made, he could not effect his escape until two days before, when he found that a war-party was about to set off to attack an emigrant train coming westward, of which they had just gained tidings.
Of course we allowed it to remain unchanged. We thought of old Folkard, but scarcely expected to fall in with him again. We were making our way through a wood, along a ridge with a valley below us, when, looking through a gap in the trees, I caught sight of two persons, the one seated, supporting the head of another, who was stretched on the ground on his knees.
If any unwary traveller happened, after sunset, to tread on this plant, it was said that a fairy-horse would suddenly appear, and carry him about all night. Wild thyme is another of their favourite plants, and Mr. Folkard notes that in Sicily rosemary is equally beloved; and that "the young fairies, under the guise of snakes, lie concealed under its branches."
I was almost in despair, when to my joy it came up, and I was quickly on its back. Pierre was very unhappy at delaying us. At length old Folkard observed "Jump up behind me, we'll soon catch a horse for you; the Indians had a lot of animals with them, and we'll take one of theirs if we can't find yours." By this time morning had dawned, and we had no longer any fear of encountering our enemies.
We had to wait therefore, until about three hours before dawn; when, mounting our steeds, we rode forward under the guidance of old Folkard, expecting at daybreak to reach the spot where the locket had been found. We agreed to breakfast there, and then to follow up the trail as soon as there was sufficient light to see it.
He insisted on his turning into a hut which old Folkard and Pierre immediately set to work to construct. Our guests begged that he might be conveyed to their wigwams, saying that their squaws would doctor him and soon restore his strength. "They may be honest those Shianees but they may be rogues like many other Redskins," observed old Ben. "Better not trust them."
Folkard immediately cut the strings and broke off the ends of the bows. We had thus far been more successful than we had anticipated. We now, having recovered our weapons and two saddles, for the Indians had left the others on the backs of the horses, glided behind the trees to which we had been bound, and stole off, cautiously following the footsteps of old Folkard, who led the way.
Folkard, in Puritan times, "replaced by the name of Venus, thus recurring to the ancient nomenclature; 'Our Lady's comb' becoming 'Venus's comb." But the two flowers which were specially connected with the Virgin were the lily and the rose. Accordingly, in Italian art, a vase of lilies stands by the Virgin's side, with three flowers crowning three green stems.
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