"It flows into the Mississippi."
"And what becomes ob dat?"
"It empties into the Gulf of Mexico, which joins the Atlantic Ocean."
"And dat runs along de oder side ob Wirginny, I hab heard."
"Yes, such is the fact."
"I've an idee; let's put out in de middle ob dis riber, and go scootin' down de Massipp to de Gulf ob Mexico, and den up de ocean to Wirginny; dar we'll carry de flatboat ober land till we strike de Ohio ag'in, and den come down to de block-house from de oder side. It'll be a round-about way, but we'll got dar, suah."
CHAPTER XXV.
FACE TO FACE.
Two white men had set out to do whatever lay in their power to rescue little Mabel Ashbridge from the hands of the Shawanoes, and their policy was diametrically opposed to each other.