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Watchful sentinels, but little could evade them, and they would be a source of valuable strength to fort and fleet alike. "You saw Timmendiquas?" said Boone. "Yes, he is here," said Henry, "and he is leading the attack." "Then our people have got to look out," said Boone emphatically. "We'll watch around here the best way we can while you go on with what you're tryin' to do."
How could anything come out of that darkness and storm and through the Indian host? A soldier, he recognized the mental grasp and energy of Timmendiquas and the thoroughness of the leaguer of both fort and river. He left the bastion presently and went into one of the log cabins where some of the wounded men lay.
"No," replied Henry. "I belong to my own people. I cannot desert them and go against them even to escape death. Such a temptation was placed in my way once before, Timmendiquas, but I had to refuse it." "I would save your life," said the chief. "I know it, and I thank you. I tell you, too, that I have no fancy for fire and the stake, but the price that you ask is too much."
"What of it?" said de Peyster. "The Kentuckians reduced so low will not dare to come against them." "That we do not know," said Timmendiquas. "When we destroy the men in Kaintuckee others come to take their places. It is the duty of the Wyandots and all the allied tribes to look into the future. Listen, O Colonel of the King.
If Caldwell and a British force would make a campaign with us, we might yet crush Clark and whatever army he may gather. We may even do it without Caldwell. In this vast wilderness which the Indians know so well it is almost impossible for a white army to escape ambush. I am, for that reason, in favor of going on and joining Timmendiquas.
This was an oasis of light and life. Timmendiquas and Thayendanegea sat together before the largest fire, and they ate with more restraint than the others. Even at the banquet they would not relax their dignity as great chiefs.
He did not forget that Timmendiquas had twice saved his life, but he in return had spared that of Timmendiquas, and now greater things were at stake than the feeling that one brave soul has for another. The light grew worse in the shadow of the giant trees and only at times could he see the flitting figure distinctly.
Paul and Shif'less Sol; full of sympathy and pity for the fugitives and having felt all the time that their turn, too, would come under that dreadful tomahawk, struggled to their feet. They did not see a form slip noiselessly behind them, but a sharp knife descended once, then twice, and the bands of both fell free. "Run! run!" exclaimed the voice of Timmendiquas, low but penetrating.
He's first among the Wyandots, and you know what that means when I tell you that the last of the Wyandots are as good as the first of most people." "Why do you talk to me about Timmendiquas?" asked Henry. "I've seen him, I've been with him for days, I know what he is." "I'm coming to it. Timmendiquas likes you. He thinks you're fitted for the forest and a life like the one he leads.
The dissatisfaction among the Indian chiefs had reached a climax, and the river, no real obstacle in itself, had served as the straw to turn them into a new course. Timmendiquas had boldly led the way northward and from Kentucky.
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