"If you want 'em, take 'em." But the warriors did not understand English and shook their heads.
Evidently they were satisfied with the spoil they had taken already.
"Which way ?" asked Robert.
They replied by leading him to the northwest.

He was hopeful at first that Tayoga might rescue him as he had done once before, but the warriors were wary and powerful, and three, too, were too many for the Onondaga alone to attack.

The thought passed and by an effort of the will he resigned himself to his immediate captivity.

They did not mean to take his life, and while there was no hope for the present there was plenty of it for the future.

He could be in a far worse case.