They arrived just in time."
The others came forth presently and were greeted with the same
warmth by Adam Colfax.
"It is shore mighty good for the eyes to see you, Mr. Colfax,"
said Shif'less Sol, "an' it's a good sign. Our people won when
you were on the Mississippi an' the Ohio' - an' now that you're
here, they're goin' to win again."
"I think we are going to win here and everywhere," said Adam
Colfax, "but it is not because there is any omen in my presence.
It is because our people will not give up, and because our
quarrel is just."
The stanch New Englander left on the following day for points
farther east, planning and carrying out some new scheme to aid
the patriot cause, and the five, on the day after that, received
a message written on a piece of paper which was found fastened to
a tree on the outskirts of the settlement. It was addressed to
"Henry Ware and Those with Him," and it read:
"You need not think because you escaped us at Wyoming and on
the Susquehanna that you will ever get back to Kentucky.
There is amighty league now on the whole border between the
Indians and the soldiers of the king. You have seen at
Wyoming what we can do, and you will see at other places and
on a greater scale what we will do.
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