girl.

"She's a remarkable child," finally said the mother; "she has done
us more than one good turn, and, it may be, Heaven intends to make
use of her again, though I cannot see how."

"The Iroquois will recognise her as one of their own race. Perhaps
one or more of them belong to her tribe: they will know her as the
child of Omas, and may listen to her pleadings."

"Alas! they will give little heed to them; my heart misgives me,
son: I feel that the end is at hand."

Meanwhile, let us follow Linna, the Delaware, upon her strange
mission.

CHAPTER ELEVEN: ALL IN VAIN

I am at some disadvantage in giving an account of the remarkable
interview between the little Delaware girl, Linna, and the three
hostile warriors who had trailed the Ripleys to the stream in
the wilderness across which they had just leaped in the effort to
continue their flight from Wyoming to the Upper Delaware.

There were no witnesses to the interview except the parties named,
but when Linna in after years had become a woman, with her very
strong memory she gave a description of what passed, and it has
come down through the descendants of the pioneers to the present
day.