However, for the time being he was reprieved, and regarded Wenniway as his "master".

Nevertheless, he was soon haled out of the house by another Indian, apparently coming with Wenniway's authority.

This man ordered him to undress, and then took away all his clothes, giving him such dirty rags or strips of leather as he possessed himself.

He frankly owned that his motive for stripping him was that, as he wished afterwards to kill him, Henry's clothes might not be stained with blood! With the intention of assassinating him, in fact, he dragged Henry along to a region of bushes and sandhills, and then produced a knife and attempted to execute his purpose.

But with the rage and strength of absolute despair Henry wrenched himself free, pushed his would-be murderer on one side, and ran for his life towards the fort.
Here Wenniway rather indifferently helped him to take refuge in the house of the Frenchman in which he had formerly hidden, but the same night he was roused from sleep and ordered to come below, where to his surprise he found himself in the presence of three of the British officers who had formerly commanded in this fort, and who were now prisoners of the Ojibwes.