"_Boone! Boone gone!_" Intense excitement. Cries of rage. General
search as Indians exeunt right and left. One or two lag behind and look
in bushes. Eagle's Feather pulls back swinging moss from hollow tree
and looks within. Then the baffled Indians dart off stage, right. A
moment later Boone enters from left. Looks warily about him, right,
left, and background. Then darts into hollow tree. A moment later the
Indians, headed by Eagle's Feather, enter right, left, and background.
They gesticulate with cries of "_Boonesborough!_" Some urge taking the
way at left, others the way at right. Eagle's Feather is among the
latter. The way at right is ultimately decided upon. With a final yell
of "_Boonesborough!_" and great swinging of tomahawks, all the Indians
exeunt right. The drone of the war-drum begins, and grows fainter and
fainter as they go into the forest. The gourds and blankets and pipes
they have collected and taken with them as supplies for the march.

BOONE
(coming triumphantly out of his hollow tree).
They have taken the wrong trail! I am free to warn my people! I can
gain the fort ere the Indians reach it! Boonesborough is saved.

[Exit Boone, running left. The grassy space is left vacant, and the
scene ends.


COSTUMES

DANIEL BOONE. Daniel Boone and his followers wear suits of buckskin
made on Indian lines. (Cotton khaki imitates the tan color of the
buckskin.) Long breeches, the buckskin tunic coming about to the knee.
It is fringed. There is no adornment on the tunics such as Indians