In after-times, when it could do no harm to tell this story, people were wont1 to regard as its most remarkable2 feature the fact that we made the trip from the Oriskany battle-field to Cairncross in five days. There was never exhibited any special interest in the curious workings of mind, and conscience too if you like, which led me to bring my enemy home. Some few, indeed, like General Arnold, to whom I recounted the affair a fortnight later when he marched up the Valley, frankly3 said that I was a fool for my pains, and doubtless many others dissembled the same opinion. But they all, with one accord, expressed surprise, admiration4, even incredulity, at the despatch5 with which we accomplished6 the difficult journey.
This achievement was, of course, entirely7 due to Enoch. At the outset he protested stoutly8 against the waste of time and trouble involved in my plan. It was only after much argument that I won him over to consenting, which he did with evident reluctance9. But it is right to say that, once embarked10 on the adventure, he carried it through faithfully and with zeal11.
The wounded man lay silent, with closed eyes, while our discussion went on. He seemed in a half-lethargic state, probably noting all that we said, yet under too heavy a spell of pain and weakness to care to speak. It was not until we two had woven a rough sort of litter out of hickory saplings, covered thick with moss12 and hemlock13 twigs14, and Enoch had knelt by his side to look to his wounds again, that Cross spoke15:
"Leave me alone!" he groaned16, angrily. "It makes me worse to have you touch me. Are you not satisfied? I am dying; that ought to be enough for you."
"Don't be a fool, Mr. Cross," said Enoch, imperturbably17, moving his hand along the course of the bandage. "We're trying to save your life. I don't know just why, but we are. Don't make it extra hard for us. All the help we want from you is for you to hold your jaw19."
"You are going to give me up to your Oneidas!" cried the suffering man, raising his head by a violent effort at the words, and staring affrightedly straight ahead of him.
There, indeed, were the two friendly Indians who had come with me to the swamp, and had run forward in pursuit of Cross's companions. They had returned with absolute noiselessness, and stood now some ten feet away from us, gazing with stolid20 composure at our group.
A hideous21 bunch of fresh scalp-locks dangled22 from the belt of each, and, on the bare legs beneath, stains of something darker than vermilion mingled23 with the pale ochre that had been rubbed upon the skin. The savages24 breathed heavily from their chase, and their black eyes were fairly aflame with excitement, but they held the muscles of their faces in an awesome25 rigidity26. They were young men whom pious27 Samuel Kirkland had laboriously28 covered, through years of effort, with a Christian29 veneering. If the good dominie could have been there and seen the glances they bent30 upon the wounded enemy at our feet, I fear me he would have groaned in spirit.
"Keep them off!" shrieked31 Cross, his head all in a tremble with the sustained exertion32 of holding itself up. "I will not be scalped! So help me God, I will not!"
The Indians knew enough of English to understand this frantic33 cry. They looked at me as much as to say that this gentleman's resolution did not materially alter the existing situation, the probabilities of which were all on the other side.
"Lay your head down, Mr. Cross," said Enoch, almost gently. "Just keep cool, or you'll bust34 your bandages off. They won't hurt you till we give 'em the word."
Still he made fitful efforts to rise, and a faint purplish color came into his throat and cheeks as he strove excitedly. If Enoch had not held his arm he would have torn off the plaster from his breast.
"It shall not be done! I will die now! You shall not save me to be tortured--scalped--by these devils!"
I intervened here. "You need fear nothing from these Indians," I said, bending over him. "Lie back again and calm yourself. We are different from the brutes35 in your camp. We pay no price for scalps."
"Perhaps those are not scalps they have hanging there. It is like your canting tongue to deny it."
It was easy to keep my temper with this helpless foe36. "These savages have their own way of making war," I answered, calmly. "They are defending their own homes against invasion, as well as we are. But we do not bribe37 them to take scalps."
"Why not be honest--you!" he said, disdainfully. "You are going to give me up. Don't sicken me with preaching into the bargain."
"Why be silly--you!" I retorted. "Does the trouble we propose taking for you look like giving you up? What would be easier than to leave you here--for the wolves, or these Indians here? Instead of that we are going to carry you all the way to your home. We are going to hide you at Cairncross, until I can get a parole for you from General Schuyler. Now will you keep still?"
He did relapse into silence at this--a silence that was born alike of mystification and utter weakness.
Enoch explained to the Oneidas, mainly in their own strange tongue, my project of conveying this British prisoner, intact so far as hair went, down the Valley. I could follow him enough to know that he described me as a warrior38 of great position and valor39; it was less flattering to have him explain that Cross was also a leading chief, and that I would get a magnificent ransom40 by delivering him up to Congress.
Doubtless it was wise not to approach the Indian mind with less practical arguments. I saw this, and begged Enoch to add that much of this reward should be theirs if they would accompany us on our journey.
"They would be more trouble than they are worth," he said. "They wouldn't help carry him more than ten minutes a day. If they'll tell me where one of their canoes is hid, betwixt here and Fort Schuyler, that will be enough."
The result was that Enoch got such information of this sort as he desired, together with the secret of a path near by which would lead us to the river trail. I cut two buttons from my coat in return, and gave them to the savages; each being a warranty41 for eight dollars upon production at my home, half way between the old and the new houses of the great and lamented42 Warraghiyagey, as they had called Sir William Johnson. This done, and the trifling43 skin-wound on my arm re-dressed, we lifted Cross upon the rude litter and started for the trail.
I seem to see again the spectacle upon which I turned to look for a last time before we entered the thicket44. The sky beyond the fatal forest wore still its greenish, brassy color, and the clouds upon the upper limits of this unnatural45 glare were of a vivid, sinister46 crimson47, like clots48 of fresh blood. In the calm gray blue of the twilight49 vault50 above, birds of prey51 circled, with a horrible calling to one another. No breath of air stirred the foliage52 or the bending rushes in the swale. We could hear no sound from our friends at the head of the ravine, a full half-mile away. Save for the hideous noises of the birds, a perfect silence rested upon this blood-soaked oasis53 of the wilderness54. The little brook55 babbled56 softly past us; the strong western light flashed upon the rain-drops among the leaves. On the cedar-clad knoll57 the two young Indians stood motionless in the sunset radiance, watching us gravely.
We passed into the enfolding depths of the woods, leaving the battle-field to the furred and feathered scavengers and scalping-knives of the forest primeval.
Our slow and furtive58 course down the winding59 river was one long misery60. I recall no other equally wretched five days in my life.
The canoe which Enoch unearthed61 on our first evening was a small and fragile affair, in which only one beside the wounded man could be accommodated. The other must take his way as best he could through the sprawling62 tangle63 of water-alders, wild artichoke, and vines, facing myriads64 of flies and an intolerable heat in all the wet places, with their sweltering luxuriance of rank vegetation. One day of this nearly reduced me to the condition of our weak and helpless prisoner. I staggered blindly along toward its close, covered to the knees with black river-mud, my face and wounded arm stinging with the scratches of poisonous ivy65 and brambles, my brain aching savagely66, my strength and spirit all gone. I could have wept like a child from sheer exhaustion67 when at last I came to the nook on the little stream where Enoch had planned to halt, and flung myself on the ground utterly68 worn out.
We were somewhat below Fort Schuyler, as near to the first settlements on the German Flatts as we might with safety venture by daylight. Thereafter we must hide during the days, and steal down the river at night. Enoch had a small store of smoked beef; for the rest we ate berries, wild grapes, and one or two varieties of edible69 roots which he knew of. We dared not build a fire.
Philip Cross passed most of his time, while we lay hiding under cover, in a drowsy70, restless stupor71, broken by feverish72 intervals73 of nervous activity of mind which were often very like delirium74. The heat, the fly-pest, and the malarial75 atmosphere of the dank recesses76 in which we lay, all combined to make his days very bad. At night in the canoe, floating noiselessly down the stream, Enoch said he seemed to suffer less and to be calmer in his mind. But at no time, for the first three days at least, did he evince any consciousness that we were doing for him more than might under the circumstances be expected. His glance seemed sometimes to bespeak77 puzzled thoughts. But he accepted all our ministrations and labors78 with either the listless indifference79 of a man ill unto death, or the composure of an aristocrat80 who took personal service and attention for granted.
After we had passed the Little Falls--which we did on our third night out--the chief danger from shallows and rifts81 was over, and Enoch was able to exchange places with me. It was no great trouble to him, skilful82 woodsman that he was, to make his way along the bank even in the dark, while in the now smooth and fairly broad course I could manage the canoe well enough.
The moon shone fair upon us, as our little bark glided83 down the river. We were in the deep current which pushes forcefully forward under the new pressure of the East Canada waters, and save for occasional guidance there was small need of my paddle. The scene was very beautiful to the eye--the white light upon the flood, the soft calm shadows of the willowed84 banks, the darker, statelier silhouettes85 of the forest trees, reared black against the pale sky.
There is something in the restful radiance of moonlight which mellows86 hearts. The poets learned this, ages since; I realized it now, as my glance fell upon the pallid87 face in the bow before me. We were looking at one another, and my hatred88 of him, nursed through years, seemed suddenly to have taken to itself wings. I had scarcely spoken to him during the voyage, other than to ask him of his wound. Now a thousand gentle impulses stirred within me, all at once, and moved my tongue.
"Are you out of pain to-night?" I asked him. "The journey is a hard one at best for a wounded man. I would we could have commanded a larger and more commodious89 boat."
"Oh, ay! So far as bodily suffering goes, I am free from it," he made answer, languidly. Then, after a little pause, he went on, in a low, musing90 voice: "How deathly still everything is! I thought that in the wilderness one heard always the night-yelping of the wolves. We did at Cairncross, I know. Yet since we started I have not heard one. It is as if we were going through a dead country."
Enoch had explained the reason for this silence to me, and I thoughtlessly blurted91 it out.
"Every wolf for forty miles round about is up at the battle-field," I said. "It is fairly marvellous how such intelligence spreads among these brutes. They must have a language of their own. How little we really understand of the animal creation about us, with all our pride of wisdom! Even the shark, sailors aver92, knows which ship to pursue."
He shuddered93 and closed his eyes as I spoke. I thought at first that he had been seized with a spasm94 of physical anguish95, by the drawn96 expression of his face; then it dawned upon me that his suffering was mental.
"Yes, I dare say they are all there," he said, lifting his voice somewhat. "I can hear them--see them! Do you know," he went on, excitedly, "all day long, all night long, I seem to have corpses97 all about me. They are there just the same when I close my eyes--when I sleep. Some of them are my friends; others I do not know, but they all know me. They look at me out of dull eyes; they seem to say they are waiting for me--and then there are the wolves!"
He began shivering at this again, and his voice sank into a piteous quaver.
"These are but fancies," I said, gently, as one would speak to a child awakened98 in terror by a nightmare. "You will be rid of them once you get where you can have rest and care."
It seemed passing strange that I should be talking thus to a man of as powerful frame as myself, and even older in years. Yet he was so wan18 and weak, and the few days of suffering had so altered, I may say refined, his face and mien99, that it was natural enough too, when one thinks of it.
He became calmer after this, and looked at me for a long time as I paddled through a stretch of still water, in silence.
"You must have been well born, after all," he said, finally.
I did not wholly understand his meaning, but answered:
"Why, yes, the Van Hoorns are a very good family--noble in some branches, in fact--and my father had his sheepskin from Utrecht. But what of it?"
"What I would say is, you have acted in all this like a gentleman."
I could not help smiling to myself, now that I saw what was in his mind. "For that matter," I answered, lightly, "it does not seem to me that either the Van Hoorns or the dead Mauverensens have much to do with it." I remembered my mother's parting remark to me, and added: "The only Van Hoorn I know of in the Valley will not be at all pleased to learn I have brought you back."
"Nobody will be pleased," he said, gloomily.
After that it was fit that silence should again intervene, for I could not gainsay100 him. He closed his eyes as if asleep, and I paddled on in the alternate moonlight and shadow.
The recollection of my mother's words brought with it a great train of thoughts, mostly bitter. I was bearing home with me a man who was not only not wanted, but whose presence and continued life meant the annihilation of all the inchoate101 hopes and dreams my heart these last two years had fed upon. It was easy to be civil, even kind, to him in his present helpless, stricken state; anybody with a man's nature could do that. But it was not so easy to look resignedly upon the future, from which all light and happiness were excluded by the very fact that he was alive.
More than once during this revery, be it stated in frankness, the reflection came to me that by merely tipping the canoe over I could even now set everything right. Of course I put the evil thought away from me, but still it came obstinately102 back more than once. Under the momentary103 spell of this devilish suggestion, I even looked at the form recumbent before me, and noted104 how impossible it was that it should ever reach the bank, once in the water. Then I tore my mind forcibly from the idea, as one looking over a dizzy height leaps back lest the strange, latent impulse of suicide shall master him, and fixed105 my thoughts instead upon the man himself.
His talk about my being well born helped me now to understand his character better than I had before been able to do. I began to realize the existence in England--in Europe generally, I dare say--of a kind of man strange to our American ideas, a being within whom long tradition and sedulous106 training had created two distinct men--one affable, honorable, generous, likeable, among his equals; the other cold, selfish, haughty107, and harsh to his inferiors. It struck me now that there had always been two Philips, and that I had been shown only the rude and hateful one because my station had not seemed to entitle me to consort108 with the other.
Once started upon this explanation, I began to comprehend the whole story. To tell the truth, I had never understood why this young man should have behaved so badly as he did; there had been to me always a certain wantonness of brutality109 in his conduct wholly inexplicable110. The thing was plainer now. In his own country he would doubtless have made a tolerable husband, a fair landlord, a worthy111 gentleman in the eyes of the only class of people whose consideration he cared for. But over here, in the new land, all the conditions had been against him. He had drawn down upon himself and all those about him overwhelming calamity112, simply because he had felt himself under the cursed obligation to act like a "gentleman," as he called it. His contemptuous dislike of me, his tyrannical treatment of his wife when she did not fall in with his ambitions, his sulky resort to dissipation, his fierce espousal of the Tory side against the common herd--I could trace now the successive steps by which obstinacy113 had led him down the fell incline.
I do not know that I had much satisfaction from this analysis, even when I had worked it all out. It was worth while, no doubt, to arrive at a knowledge of Philip's true nature, and to see that under other circumstances he might have been as good a man as another. But all the same my heart grew heavy under the recurring114 thought that the saving of his life meant the destruction of all worth having in mine.
Every noiseless stroke of my paddle in the water, bearing him toward home as it did, seemed to push me farther back into a chill, unknown world of gloom and desolation. Yet, God help me, I could do no other!
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