When Col.

Zane and the Major had settled down to their series of games, from which nothing short of Indians could have diverted them, Betty sat by Wetzel.

The silent man of the woods, an appellation the hunter had earned by his reticence, talked for Betty as he would for no one else.
One night while Col.

Zane, his wife and Betty were entertaining Capt.

Boggs and Major McColloch and several of Betty's girls friends, after the usual music and singing, storytelling became the order of the evening.