9/19 Simon Girty's bad enough; but Jim's the wust. He's all the time on the lookout to capture white wimen to take to his Injun teepee. Simon Girty and his pals, McKee and Elliott, deserted from that thar fort right afore yer eyes. They're now livin' among the redskins down Fort Henry way, raisin' as much hell fer the settlers as they kin." "Is Fort Henry near the Indian towns ?" asked Joe. I 'spect it's a matter of a hundred miles below and cross-country a little from Fort Henry." "The fort must be an important point, is it not ?" "Wal, I guess so. |