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CHAPTER XVIII. OUR ADVENTURE RECEIVES A RECRUIT.
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At earliest light, with the dew heavy on the willows1 and the river line a coil of mist, Shalah woke me for the road. We breakfasted off fried bacon, some of which I saved for the journey, for the Indian was content with one meal a day. As we left the stockade2 I noted3 the row of Meebaw scalps hanging, grim and bloody4, from the poles. The Borderers were up and stirring, for they looked to take the Indians in the river narrows before the morning was old.
No two Indian war parties ever take the same path, so it was Shalah's plan to work back to the route we had just travelled, by which the Cherokees had come yesterday. This sounds simple enough, but the danger lay in the second party. By striking to right or left we might walk into it, and then good-bye to our hopes of the hills. But the whole thing was easier to me than the cruel toil5 of yesterday. There was need of stealth and woodcraft, but not of yon killing6 speed.
For the first hour we went up a northern fork of the Rappahannock, then crossed the water at a ford7, and struck into a thick pine forest. I was feeling wonderfully rested, and found no discomfort8 in Shalah's long strides. My mind was very busy on the defence of the Borders, and I kept wondering how long the Governor's militia9 would take to reach the Rappahannock, and whether Lawrence could reinforce the northern posts in time to prevent mischief10 in Stafford county. I cast back to my memory of the tales of Indian war, and could not believe but that the white man, if warned and armed, would roll back the Cherokees. 'Twas not them I feared, but that other force now screened behind the mountains, who had for their leader some white madman with a fire in his head and Bible words on his lips. Were we of Virginia
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