" Then giving his anxious Indian friend a look, to re-assure
him of his innocence, he turned to the rest of his attentive and
interested listeners, as he continued in English, "I have a short
story to tell, and he that believes it will believe the truth, and he
that disbelieves it will only lead himself astray, and perhaps his
neighbour too. We were all out-lying about your camp, friend squatter,
as by this time you may begin to suspect, when we found that it
contained a wronged and imprisoned lady, with intentions neither more
honest nor dishonest than to set her free, as in nature and justice
she had a right to be. Seeing that I was more skilled in scouting than
the others, while they lay back in the cover, I was sent upon the
plain, on the business of the reconnoitrings. You little thought that
one was so nigh, who saw into all the circumventions of your hunt; but
there was I, sometimes flat behind a bush or a tuft of grass,
sometimes rolling down a hill into a bottom, and little did you dream
that your motions were watched, as the panther watches the drinking
deer.
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