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The humble Asinus, too meek and too weary to make any
resistance, was soon tethered and deposited in his bed of dying grass,
where he was left with a perfect confidence on the part of his master
of finding him, again, at the expiration of a few hours. The old man
strongly remonstrated against this arrangement, and more than once
hinted that the knife was much more certain than the tether, but the
petitions of Obed, aided perhaps by the secret reluctance of the
trapper to destroy the beast, were the means of saving its life. When
Asinus was thus secured, and as his master believed secreted, the
whole party proceeded to find some place where they might rest
themselves, during the time required for the repose of the animal.
According to the calculations of the trapper, they had ridden twenty
miles since the commencement of their flight. The delicate frame of
Inez began to droop under the excessive fatigue, nor was the more
robust, but still feminine person of Ellen, insensible to the
extraordinary effort she had made.


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