say. Where are the children?"

A tiny hand was slipped into his own, and looking down, there stood
Linna, with her forefinger between her teeth, looking shyly up at
him. There could be no doubt she felt fully acquainted.

Alice came forward on the other side. Neither understood the cause
of the turmoil about them. They were not scared, but were awed into
silence.

"I saw Omas," explained Ben to his mother; "he saved me from the
fate of many others."

"Where is he?"

"A little way off, under the bank, waiting with his canoe, to take
us across the river.

"He says we must hurry through the woods for the settlements on
the Upper Delaware. Every hour that we stay increases our danger."

"Let me take Alice; lead the way."

Clasping tight the hand of Linna, with his mother at his heels, Ben
pushed for the point where he had left the Delaware a few minutes
before.

Strange that though the distance was not far, and the confusion
seemed to be increasing every minute, the little party had not gone
half way when they were checked by one of the men that had been