The two younger girls gave way to despair when captured, but Betsey Callaway was sure they would be followed and rescued.

To mark the line of their flight she broke off twigs from the bushes, and when threatened with the tomahawk for doing this, she tore off strips from her dress.

The Indians carefully covered their trail, compelling the girls to walk apart, as their captors did, in the thick cane, and to wade up and down the little brooks.
Boon started in pursuit the same evening.

All next day he followed the tangled trail like a bloodhound, and early the following morning came on the Indians, camped by a buffalo calf which they had just killed and were about to cook.

The rescue was managed very adroitly, for had any warning been given the Indians would have instantly killed their captives, according to their invariable custom.