"I don't believe anybody else but you would have tried it,
Henry," said Paul, when they heard of the fearful slide.
"Any one of you would have done it," said Henry, modestly.
"I'm pow'ful glad that you done it for two reasons," said
Shif'less Sol. "One, 'cause it helped you to git away, an' the
other, 'cause that scoundrel, Braxton Wyatt, didn't take you.
'Twould hurt my pride tre-men-jeous for any uv us to be took by
Braxton Wyatt."
"You speak for us all there, Sol," said Paul.
"What have all of you been doing?" asked Henry.
"Not much of anything," replied Shif'less Sol. We've been
scoutin' several times, lookin' fur you, though we knowed you'd
come in some time or other, but mostly we've been workin' 'roun'
the place here, fixin' it up warmer an' storin' away food."
"We'll have to continue at that for some time, I'm afraid," said
Henry, "unless this snow breaks up. Have any of you heard if any
movement is yet on foot against the Iroquois?"
"Tom ran across some scouts from the militia," replied Paul, "and
they said nothing could be done until warm weather came. Then a
real army would march."
"I hope so," said Henry earnestly.
But for the present the five could achieve little.
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