. The wilderness fugitives . cap-tain ever since they started from the house withthe Indians—even before; and now the man hadhalted again, more loth than ever to was plain that he held the Mohawk in greatfear. Where is this cave in which you say theparty are asleep? he asked, in reply to theexplanation of the guide. You have only to go a little way furtherwith me and youll see it, replied Worrell, whowas evidently unwilling that anyone shouldshare so valuable a secret with him. Colonel Butler has all of twenty of the bestIroquois with him, and the \visest thing for usis to go to his
. The wilderness fugitives . cap-tain ever since they started from the house withthe Indians—even before; and now the man hadhalted again, more loth than ever to was plain that he held the Mohawk in greatfear. Where is this cave in which you say theparty are asleep? he asked, in reply to theexplanation of the guide. You have only to go a little way furtherwith me and youll see it, replied Worrell, whowas evidently unwilling that anyone shouldshare so valuable a secret with him. Colonel Butler has all of twenty of the bestIroquois with him, and the \visest thing for usis to go to his camp, tell him how the casestands, and get him to let us have eight or tenmore; then we can come back and lay regularsiege to the place. Then we shall be sure ofcatching them sooner or later. Yes, at the end of a month or so, and it wont do for Butler to stay much longer in the valley. He knows it, and will leave in a day or two. But why speak of waiting a month before they can be taken, when thirst and starvation - . •. VT THAT MOMENT THE CRACK OF A RIFLE BROKE THE STILLNESS ANDTHK MAN, \YORRELL, FELL FORWARD.—Page 225. THE WILDERNESS FUGITIVES. 225 will bring them to terms in a couple of days atthe most? It will, eh? said Worrell, contemptuous!}*.There is a spring of water in one corner ofthe cavern, and they have enough provisionsstored there to last all of a month. How came the provisions in that place? I took them there myself, for I have used thecave many a time. T. is was a falsehood, so far as the water andfood were concerned, the cavern containing noth-ing of the kind. Do not any of these Iroquois know where theplace is? Of course not, and there is no danger of theMohawk finding it under two or three dayshunt. You neednt tell me such stuff as that, saidCaptain Bagley. Theres nothing that you canhide from him. This is a pretty crowd that is afraid to goforward because there happens to be a singleIndian somewhere in the woods. If you want tostay behind, let me hav
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