Keineth

ntentedly in her lap and fastened

was rich about them and they were soon carrying on a prosperous trade with the Indians who came to the fort. Though these Indians were friendly the soldiers had made the fort as strong as possible, for they knew that no one could tell

ht he was dead. After years of lonely wandering he had joined the little band of adventurers when they started for the West--as they called it in those days! He was a queer man,

oliteness. Sometimes great chiefs came to the fort and then the soldiers

s for their reception. The commanding officer went forward with some of his men to meet them. The Indian band was led by a chi

ings might have happened before they made her captive no one could know, for an Indian never tells and the white men knew better than to ask

ians let the white medicine-man care for their captive. She had been so terribly hurt that for days she lay as though d

too ill to be moved; so, with a few words, the Indian Chief told the officer of the fort that soon they would return for the girl--whom he claimed as his squaw--and that if il

an would return for the girl whom he claimed as his squaw, and that if sh

an angel to the rough traders and soldiers; going about among them in the simple robe they had fashioned for her of skins and sacking, with he

anada would be swept with flame and blood! Almost to a man they said they would go back to fight. One among them did not speak--it wa

would remain at the fort until the chieftain came to claim his captive

would come for the girl--to them, it simply meant that their guard would be ended and that they, too, might return--but Robert went about with a heavy heart, for, as the days passed, it seemed t

emory of everything that had happened to her and hers at the hands of these red men. Robert found her crouched in a corner weeping in terror. To him she told her story; how the little band of people, once happy families in the land of Acadia, roaming in search of a home, had been surprised by an attack of Indians; how before her very eyes every soul of them had been killed and she alone had been spared because the chief wanted her fo

new that life would be very, very happy if he could es

a little way off, decked out as if for a great ceremony and led by a chieftain! Robert w

The others must start eastward immediately along the river trail. Then as soon as the moon had gone down, he and Angele wo

ir own scalps! They hastily gathered together what they wanted to take with them and stole from the fort. During their i

knew what escape meant to her. Then, gently, he asked her if--when they had found safety in the Colonies-

ver bank near the opening of the rough tunnel, Angele j

ckly to end her own life! He then carefully barred every possible entrance, knowing that though the Indians could beat t

er a horrible whoop split the air! Angele pressed her hands tight to her mouth to still her scream of terror. With a mighty str

but had been sent on ahead by the chieftain to see how things were at the fort. They had gone back and told their st

or his good marksmanship, but it was God who guided that aim through the darkness, for it shot straight into the very heart of the chieftain! While, in confusio

d?" cried Peggy, dr

, useful lives in a settlement in Pennsylvania. Some records of the fort where the priest married them te

page out of history?" Barbara as

ican History book, beginning with the

out dates and the Cabots--I never c

s about brave men that were never put

I'm not that poor captive maiden an

hat mother is sure to ha

course, f