They fought for their own land and their own
people, but Braxton Wyatt had violated everything that an honest
man should hold sacred.
Henry, on the whole, was not surprised to see him. Such a chance
was sure to draw Braxton Wyatt. Moreover, the war, so far as it
pertained to the border, seemed to be sweeping toward the
northeast, and it bore many stormy petrels upon its crest.
He watched Wyatt as he walked toward one of the fires. There the
renegade sat down and talked with the warriors, apparently on the
best of terms. He was presently joined by two more renegades,
whom Henry recognized as Blackstaffe and Quarles. Timmendiquas
and Thayendanegea rose after a while, and walked toward the
center of the camp, where several of the bark shelters had been
enclosed entirely. Henry judged that one had been set apart for
each, but they were lost from his view when they passed within
the circling ring of warriors.
Henry believed that the Iroquois and Wyandots would form a
fortified camp here, a place from which they would make sudden
and terrible forays upon the settlements. He based his opinion
upon the good location and the great number of saplings that had
been cut down already.
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