Den dar come a yell dat nearly blowed de roof off de house.
Big Mose gib a screech and run, and _bang-bang_ went a lot ob guns all
around us. De Injines was dar, burnin', tomahawkin', screechin',
shoutin', and killin' de poor niggers as fast as dey showed demselves.
I see'd Miss Mary----"
"Did they harm her?"
"No! She didn't 'pear _skeart_ a bit. She tried to keep de Injines
from killing de poor niggers, not t'inking anyt'ing about herself."
"How was it that _you_ escaped?"
"I stayed where I was till I was nearly burnt up, when I sneaked out
and none of 'em didn't 'pear to notice me. I hid in de woods and
stayed dar till mornin'."
"Did you see anything more of Miss Mary?"
"Yes, I see'd de Injines go away purty soon, and take her along. Dey
didn't take any ob de niggers, 'cause dey had killed 'em all but me,
and I was already dead, but I comed to agin."
"None of Captain Prescott's family were in the house besides Mary, were
they?" asked the Lieutenant, asking a question of which he well knew
the answer.
"Nobody else wan't dar--bress de Lord! Missis Prescott and Helen went
off on a visit to de settlement, t'ree, four days ago."
"How was it Miss Mary remained behind?"
"Ki-yi! you doesn't know, eh?" said Cato, grinning vastly, in total
forgetfulness, for the moment, of his dreadful surroundings.
"How should I know? Of course, I do not."
"Wal, den, Oonymoo, dat red Injine, told her as how maybe you'd be
'long dese parts 'bout dis time, and _she_ 'cluded she'd be't home when
_you_ called.
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