I scarcely saw how she snatched it up and left.

When your father came, I told him, and we didn't know what to do.

We knew she would come back and bring her band.

If we were not there, they would burn the cabin, ruin our crops, kill our stock, take everything we had, and we couldn't travel so far, or so fast, that on their ponies they couldn't overtake us.

We endangered any one with whom we sought refuge, so we gripped hands, knelt down and told the Lord all about it, and we felt the answer was to stay.