Although holding little interest himself in the mission of the minister among his people, he would undoubtedly have led a party to the search for the audacious savage who had abducted the respected white woman; and, had he been overtaken, a swift and merciless retribution would have fallen upon the trangressor's head.
Harvey Richter deemed it best to take but a few Indians with him.
Accordingly he selected five that he knew to be skillful, and with them hurried at once in the direction of his cabin.

He saw with a sinking heart, as he returned, that the sun was already low in the horizon, and the woods were becoming dark and gloomy.

Teddy was at his post chafing like a confined lion.
"This woman, Teddy, will take care of the boy, so that you may join us in the search." "Bliss you for that! It would be the hardest work of me life to stay here when I thought there's a chance of gitting a whack at that thaiving villian.

Oh, _if_ I could only git howld of him, I wouldn't l'ave a piece of him big enough to spit on." "I think there's little probability of either of us obtaining a glimpse of him.

We must rely upon these Indians to take the trail and follow it to the end." "They're like the hounds in the owld country, barring they go on two legs an' don't stick their noses in the ground, nor howl whin they git on trail.