"You do not know?" demanded Dave.
"She know not," answered Covelle. "But she think he traveled from here to a French trading-post on the Maumee or to Fort Pitt. She say he come back."
"When?"
"Zat she know not," answered the French trapper.
CHAPTER XXII
THE ATTACK ON FORT DETROIT
The information received about Benoit Vascal by Barringford and Dave was scarcely satisfactory, and both walked back to Fort Detroit in a thoughtful frame of mind.
"Shall we wait for the Frenchman to come back?" questioned the youth.
"I know o' nothin' else to do," answered the old frontiersman. "I only trust he comes back soon. I must see him about them twins, ef I possibly can. Sech a thing ain't to be dropped."
Besides the regular garrison at Fort Detroit there were a number of trappers there, and among them several Sam Barringford had met. The latter made the old frontiersman and Dave at home, and shared with the newcomer a small house which they were occupying.