D'ye think ye'll go ?" "Go?
ay, that will I." "I only wish they'd made the offer to me," said Dick with a sigh.
"An' so they do make the offer, lad.

They've gin me leave to choose the two men I'm to take with me, and I've corned straight to ask _you_.

Ay or no, for we must up an' away by break o' day to-morrow." Mrs.Varley started.

"So soon ?" she said, with a look of anxiety.
"Ay; the Pawnees are at the Yellow Creek jist at this time, but I've heerd they're 'bout to break up camp an' away west; so we'll need to use haste." "May I go, mother ?" asked Dick, with a look of anxiety.
There was evidently a conflict in the widow's breast, but it quickly ceased.
"Yes, my boy," she said in her own low, quiet voice; "and God go with ye.

I knew the time must come soon, an' I thank him that your first visit to the Redskins will be on an errand o' peace.