Good-bye." A smile transformed his face and his gray eyes gazed steadily into hers.

Then his head fell back.

With a sigh his brave spirit fled.
Hugh Bennet looked once at the pale face of his son, then he ran down the stairs after Silas and Clarke.

When the three men emerged from behind Capt.

Boggs' cabin, which was adjacent to the block-house, and which hid the south wall from their view, they were two hundred feet from Wetzel.