CHAPTER XXX
ESCAPE AND FLIGHT
"Oh, Dave! Dave! How glad I am to see you!"
And leaping from among the Indians who surrounded her, little Nell ran to her big cousin and threw herself into his arms. He strained her to his breast, and kissed her several times.
"Isn't it wonderful that we should meet here," he said. "Are you well, Nell?"
"Yes, but the bad Indians have treated me dreadfully, Dave. And it has been so hard on Tom and Artie, too!"
"Where did you come from?"
"Some Indian village a long, long distance away. We have been traveling day and night. They said the English were after us. We had to walk until my feet were sore. Then we got into a canoe."
"They haven't offered to kill you since they captured you, have they?"
"Yes, once. But then they saw the beads that White Buffalo gave me, and instead of killing me they treated me quite kindly. An Indian girl told me they were magic beads, and if I wore them no Indian would kill me, or hurt me."