[Wau-bun by Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie]@TWC D-Link bookWau-bun CHAPTER XXXVIII 7/21
When he again addressed me, it was to say,-- "You are right, but it is no affair of ours.
We are none of us to look so as to give him notice that we suspect anything.
They are undoubtedly innocent, and have suffered enough already." Contrary to his usual custom, their Father did not ask their names, but wrote their directions, which he tied to their different implements, and then bade them go and deliver them themselves to M.Morrin. The rest of our circle were greatly pleased at the young fellow's audacity, and we quite longed to tell the officers that we could have caught one of their fugitives for them, if we had had a mind. * * * * * The time had now come when we began to think seriously of leaving our pleasant home, and taking up our residence at Detroit, while making arrangements for a permanent settlement at Chicago. This intelligence, when communicated to our Winnebago children, brought forth great lamentations and demonstrations of regret.
From the surrounding country they came flocking in, to inquire into the truth of the tidings they had heard, and to petition earnestly that we would continue to live and die among them. Among them all, no one seemed so overwhelmed with affliction as Elizabeth, our poor _Cut-Nose_.
When we first told her of our intention, she sat for hours in the same spot, wiping away the tears that would find their way down her cheeks, with the corner of the chintz shawl she wore pinned across her bosom. "No! I never, never, never shall I find such friends again," she would exclaim.
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