"Now let's hear what you propose." "I can have my men at their posts by the week end.

We will string them out along the frontier, and hold especially the river valleys.

If invasion comes, then at any rate the Tidewater will get early news of it.

Meantime I and my friends, looking for Studd's powder-horn, with a mind to confirm your birthday gift to Miss Elspeth Blair, will push on to the hills and learn what is to be learned there." "You will never come back," he said tartly.

"An Indian stake and a bloody head will be the end of all of you." "Maybe," I said, "though I have men with me that can play the Indian game.