He had
left sundry folios, and certain boxes well stored with botanical
specimens and defunct animals, under the good keeping of Ishmael, and
it immediately struck his acute mind, that marauders as subtle as the
Siouxes would never neglect the opportunity to despoil him of these
treasures. Nothing that Ellen could say to the contrary served to
appease his apprehensions, and, consequently, they separated; he to
relieve his doubts and fears together, and she to glide, as swiftly
and silently as she had just before passed it, into the still and
solitary tent.
CHAPTER VII
What! fifty of my followers, at a clap!
--Lear.
The day had now fairly opened on the seemingly interminable waste of
the prairie. The entrance of Obed at such a moment into the camp,
accompanied as it was by vociferous lamentations over his anticipated
loss, did not fail to rouse the drowsy family of the squatter. Ishmael
and his sons, together with the forbidding looking brother of his
wife, were all speedily afoot; and then, as the sun began to shed his
light on the place, they became gradually apprised of the extent of
their loss.
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