"
"All right; go ahead, Mr. Hansderbumvan; I'm behind you," said Cato,
taking his favorite position in the rear.
Several hundred yards further and Hans recognized the wished-for spot.
He had hardly reached it, when a light step was heard, and the next
moment Lieutenant Canfield and the Huron stood in his presence.
"Brudder comes in good time," said the latter, extending his hand.
"Yaw; Keewaygooshturkumkankangewock showed me de way to do dat,"
replied Hans, shaking hands with the young Lieutenant also. The latter
expressed some surprise at seeing Cato present, saying that he had
congratulated himself upon being well rid of him. The negro explained
his departure upon the grounds of his extreme solicitude for the safety
of his friends. The conversation between Hans and the Huron was now
carried on in the Shawnee tongue.
"How does matters progress with my brother?"
"Very good; the gal is in my wigwam."
"What does she there?"
"Keewaygooshturkumkankangewock has charge of her."
"That is good."
"I don't know about that, Oonomoo; I think it couldn't be much worse;
for Keewaygooshturkumkankangewock has got a bad temper, if she is the
same shape all the way down."
"It is good, my brother. We will have the captive when the sun comes
up again in the sky."
"How are you going to get her?"
"Give Keewaygooshturkumkankangewock this drug," said the Huron, handing
him a dark, waxy substance.
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