Excerpt: ...still think it was most dangerous for you to come here. I believe your father acted very unwisely, no matter how much be believes in his influence over the Indians. And I would thank God if you were back in Williamsburg." Her hands dropped to her side. The smiling eyes grew hard. "Go on!" she curtly commanded. "I've damned myself in your opinion already. Isn't that enough? Don't make me pay double for being honest." "Honest?" she jeered. "You've deliberately dodged my question. I asked you what you thought of my ...
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Excerpt: ...still think it was most dangerous for you to come here. I believe your father acted very unwisely, no matter how much be believes in his influence over the Indians. And I would thank God if you were back in Williamsburg." Her hands dropped to her side. The smiling eyes grew hard. "Go on!" she curtly commanded. "I've damned myself in your opinion already. Isn't that enough? Don't make me pay double for being honest." "Honest?" she jeered. "You've deliberately dodged my question. I asked you what you thought of my father's power with the Indians. You rant about his wickedness in bringing me here. For the last time I ask you to answer my question and finish your list of my father's faults." As if to make more steep the precipice down which from her esteem I was about to plunge there came the voice of her father, loudly addressing the settlers. "You people ought to wake up," he was saying. "Was it your rifles, or was it trade that stopped an attack on these cabins night before last? When will you learn that you can not stop Indian wars 177 until you've killed every Indian this side the mountains? Has there ever been a time when you or your fathers could stop their raids with rifles? Well, you've seen one raid stopped by the influence of trade." As he paused for breath the girl quietly said: "Now, answer me." And I blurted out: "I don't have any idea that Black Hoof and his warriors will hesitate a second in sacking Howard's Creek because of anything your father has said or could say. I honestly believe the Shawnees are playing a game, that they are hoping the settlers are silly enough to think themselves safe. I am convinced that once Black Hoof believes the settlers are in that frame of mind he will return and strike just as venomously as the Shawnees struck in the old French War and in...
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