I do not doubt it.

At the conclusion of the tenth day when Tayoga arrives on the return from the vale of Onondaga you will gladly admit the truth." "There can be no doubt about my gladness, Lennox, if it should come true, but the elements seem to have conspired against him, and I've learned that in the wilderness the elements count very heavily." "Earth, fire and water may all join against him, but at the time appointed he will come.

I know it." The great cold, and it was hard, fierce and bitter, lasted two days.

At night the popping of the contracting timbers sounded like a continuous pistol fire, but Willet had foreseen everything.

At his instance, Colden had made the young soldiers gather vast quantities of fuel long ago from a forest which was filled everywhere with dead boughs and fallen timber, the accumulation of scores of years.
Then another great thaw came, and the fickle climate proceeded to show what it could do.