He read there no mercy for anything, not even for himself, Braxton Wyatt, if he should stand in the way, and it was this last fact that brought the shudder.
Hiokatoo thought it a good plan.

Twenty warriors, mostly Senecas and Cayugas, were detailed to execute it at once, and they stole off toward the right.

Henry had suspected some such diversion, and, as he had been joined now by the four men from the other side of the creek, he disposed his little force to meet it.

Both Shif'less Sol and Heemskerk had caught sight of figures slipping away among the trees, and Henry craftily drew back a little.

While two or three men maintained the sharpshooting in the front, he waited for the attack.