Again it is necessary to consider time and place.
"Some of my strength came back while I was lying here," she said, "and much more of it when you drove away the Indians." "Very well," said Henry, who had returned to the dead camp fire with his comrades, "we must start on the back trail at once.

The surviving Senecas, joined by other Iroquois, will certainly pursue, and we need all the start that we can get." Long Jim picked up one of the two younger children and flung him over his shoulder; Tom Ross did as much for the other, but the older two scorned help.

They were full of admiration for the great woodsmen, mighty heroes who had suddenly appeared out of the air, as it were, and who had swept like a tornado over the Seneca band.

It did not seem possible now that they, could be retaken.
But Mary Newton, with her strength and courage, had also recovered her forethought.
"Maybe it will not be better to go on the back trail," she said.

"One of the Senecas told me to-day that six or seven miles farther on was a river flowing into the Susquehanna, and that they would cross this river on a boat now concealed among bushes on the bank.