64 er’ home to his wigwam to make all things even again, as a chief who died without young braves to succeed him would soon be forgotten. So saying he took the new captive by the hand, and they departed to the forest to await the operation of his remarks on Mary’s mind. Returning at night, and finding her asleep on her buffalo-skins, he lay down beside her as if all were well, at the same time motioning the mew comer’ to take a skin and lie down in the corner. He was soon asleep, having in his perturbed state of mind partaken of some whisky saved from the last raid in Virginia. On the folio-wing morning he was found with his head split open, and the tomahawk remaining in the skull-crack, while the ‘new comer’ had fled. Mary, simulating, or being in ignorance of the murder, at once aroused ‘The White Woman's Town’ with her screams. The war-' riors were soon out at her wigwam, and comprehending the situation, at once started in pursuit of the fleeing murderess, whom they tracked to the Tuscarawas; thence to an Indian town near by. where they found her. She was claimed as a deserter from ‘The Whtie Woman’s Town,’ and, under the Indian
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