. The Big Sandy Valley. A history of the people and country from the earliest settlement to the present time. d go. She thinks we are still babies and cant be trustedout of her sight, he said angrily, and straightway ina fit of the sulks threw himself down on the ground bymy side. We remained there until father came up from theplantation, and then I was forced to help mother cooksupper. The girls had not come back at that time, althoughit was within half an hour of sunset; but I was so oc-cupied that I gave little or no heed to the matter untilMrs. Boone came in, long after we had eaten supper
. The Big Sandy Valley. A history of the people and country from the earliest settlement to the present time. d go. She thinks we are still babies and cant be trustedout of her sight, he said angrily, and straightway ina fit of the sulks threw himself down on the ground bymy side. We remained there until father came up from theplantation, and then I was forced to help mother cooksupper. The girls had not come back at that time, althoughit was within half an hour of sunset; but I was so oc-cupied that I gave little or no heed to the matter untilMrs. Boone came in, long after we had eaten supper, tolearn if Jemima had told me where she was going. Then, as can well be supposed, there was an excitingtime. It seemed certain some accident had happened,otherwise the girls would never have stayed away fromthe fort after dark, and I began to realize that perhapsones father and mother knew what was best, while 110 HANNAH OF KENTUCKY Billy whispered to me that we hadnt been wronged somuch after all. It was while the women were running to and fro indistress, and the men were getting ready to go in search. of the missing ones, that Samuel Henderson, who ex-pected some day to be married to Elizabeth Callaway,came running into the stockade with the very worstnews that could have been brought. He had been on the river locating some land whichhis brother had sold to John Holder, and had come backby way of the creek. When he was within less than a FINDING THE TRAIL iii mile of the fort, he found an overturned canoe whichhe recognized as Colonel Callaways, and on the bankof the creek were marks of a struggle, the footprintsshowing that some of those who made them were whitewomen. Half frantic with fear and apprehension, he hurriedon to the fort, for it was by this time too dark to followthe trail. FINDING THE TRAIL At that moment Colonel Boone was in the forest, andnearly an hour passed before he came back; but thetime was not wasted, because it would have been of lit-tle avail to set
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