sensitive of them, as a protest against the unfairness of the
other, tomahawked the young lady. The usual retaliations were
proposed under the popular titles of justice and so forth; but as
the tribe of the slayer would certainly have followed suit by a
massacre of whites on the Canadian frontier, Burgoyne was
compelled to forgive the crime, to the intense disgust of
indignant Christendom.

BRUDENELL

Brudenell is also a real person. At least an artillery chaplain
of that name distinguished himself at Saratoga by reading the
burial service over Major Fraser under fire, and by a quite
readable adventure, chronicled by Burgoyne, with Lady Harriet
Ackland. Lady Harriet's husband achieved the remarkable feat of
killing himself, instead of his adversary, in a duel. He
overbalanced himself in the heat of his swordsmanship, and fell
with his head against a pebble. Lady Harriet then married the
warrior chaplain, who, like Anthony Anderson in the play, seems
to have mistaken his natural profession.

The rest of the Devil's Disciple may have actually occurred, like
most stories invented by dramatists; but I cannot produce any
documents. Major Swindon's name is invented; but the man, of
course, is real. There are dozens of him extant to this day.