"How did you free yourself of them?"
"Broke them all by my giant strength, ma'm," he replied, valiantly.
"You are mistaken, sir."
"Oh! was it you that cut them when we was in the muss?" he asked, eagerly.
"I cut them and admonished you to fly. You should not take the credit yourself," mildly replied the visitor.
"I didn't know as you done it, or I wouldn't said so," said Jenkins, somewhat crestfallen at being so caught.
"How came you to be captured?" she continued, standing in front of him, and keeping her dark eyes fixed upon him.
"Overpowered by main force! I'd like to see the man that could withstand forty-three Shawnee Indians."
"Were there that many who assailed you?"
"Well, I couldn't say positively now—perhaps more or less. To speak within bounds, we'll call it forty-two."