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Then why did you not answer my questions?" asked Roughgrove, turning to the captive. The young chief made no answer, but sat with his arms folded, and still regarding the features of Mary. "He's a perfect fool!" said Sneak. "He's a snake in the grass, and'll bite some of us some of these times, before we know any thing about it," said Joe. "Be silent," said Glenn.

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William's illness Sneak's strange house Joe's courage The bee hunt Joe and Sneak captured by the Indians Their sad condition Preparations to burn them alive Their miraculous escape. Just before the dawn of day, Roughgrove and Glenn were awakened by Mary. She was weeping at the bed-side of William. "What's the matter, child?" asked Roughgrove, rising up and lighting the lamp.

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Boone, Glenn, and Roughgrove proceeded down the valley, while Joe seemed disposed to loiter, undetermined what to engage in, having cast an occasional curious glance at Boone and his master when engaged in their low conversation, and rightly conjecturing that "something wrong was in the wind," as he expressed it.

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Roughgrove had recrossed the river, with a party of recruits, and fallen upon the rear of the savages, at a moment when success seemed to smile on their sanguinary purpose. Their shouts of exultation at the prospect of firing the premises were now changed to howls of despair, and they fled in all directions.

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I was not deceived in his integrity. He was not the one that stole away Mary. I doubt not he brings intelligence of her." "God grant she may still be unharmed!" said Roughgrove, advancing to meet the Indian, who, being now within gunshot, raised his small white flag. "Tell me! tell me all about her!" exclaimed Roughgrove, in the Osage language, when he met the Indian.

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Roughgrove did his bidding; and the Indian replied that the Great Spirit threw him over the palisade, because he once killed a friend of Boone's at the cave-spring, and was now attempting to kill another. "Why did you wish to kill us?" asked Roughgrove. "Was it right to rob the white man of these things, and then to murder him?" continued Roughgrove.

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Roughgrove," said Joe, in a low tone. "Well, what do you want with me?" responded the old ferryman. "I wanted to tell you that your two oarsmen are forgotten, and to ask you if we hadn't better call to them to come up here, where they'll be out of danger?" "They are not forgotten," said Roughgrove; "I sent them over the river to procure assistance, if possible." "Thank you.

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The captured chief resolved not to plead for his life. He would make no reply whatever to their questions, but still gazed downwards in reckless sullenness. "Let us set him free!" said Roughgrove. "Kill him!" cried several. "No!" exclaimed Mary, "what do you say, Mr. Boone?" "It would be useless to kill him," said Boone. "Let him go, then," said Glenn. "No!" said Boone. "Why?" asked Glenn.

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"Would you attempt to injure the white man again if we were not to kill you?" The Indian smiled, but made no answer. "I am in earnest," continued Roughgrove, "and wish to know what you would do if we spared your life." The Indian said such talk was only trifling, and again insisted upon being dispatched. After a short consultation with Boone and Glenn, Roughgrove repeated his question.

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A minute afterwards, Sneak emerged from the thicket, bearing the inanimate body of Mary in his arms, and followed by Glenn. "Is she dead? Oh, she's dead!" cried Roughgrove, snatching her from the arms of Sneak. "She has only fainted!" exclaimed Glenn, examining the body of the pale girl, and finding no wounds. "She is recovering!" said Boone, feeling her pulse.

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