"But what will he do with Red Wolf?"

"He will strike down Red Wolf, because he is a coward, and did not
keep all harm from his white friends."

This intimation that the Delaware could not shelter himself behind
the plea of neutrality, but must be either an active friend or
foe, was a little more than he could accept. While he held Omas in
wholesome dread, he dared not array himself against the two Senecas,
who were determined not to spare the hapless fugitives.

Red Wolf was a fair specimen of his tribe, who, as I have stated,
were beaten by the Iroquois. These conquerors, indeed, carried
matters with so high a hand that they once forbade the Delawares
to use firearms, but made them keep to the old fashioned bow and
arrow.

Red Wolf, therefore, having squared accounts, so to speak, with
his present companions, was anxious to win the good will of Linna,
and thereby that of her fierce parent, who was a hurricane in his
wrath, and likely to brain Red Wolf before he could explain matters.

"Omas is the greatest warrior of the Delawares," he said to Linna;
"Red Wolf and he are brothers. But the Senecas will not listen to
the words of Red Wolf: they love not Omas as does Red Wolf."

The Delaware child now found herself in a quandary. She had made
her plea, but, so far as she could see, it was in vain, since the
friendship of Red Wolf alone was not enough. One of the Senecas
was studying the body of the dead bear and paying no heed to her