CHAPTER XII
AN ATTACK
Several weeks elapsed before the schoolmaster recovered sufficiently from his wounds to enable him to resume his task.
It was now March, 1775, and Daniel Boone had returned to the settlement on the Clinch. The task which Governor Dunmore had assigned him had been accomplished. He found Peleg and the members of his family engaged in their preparations for the spring work.
At the close of the first day after his homecoming, the great scout once more had an interview with Peleg. "I have just come from Watage," he explained when no one was near, "where there has been an assembly of the Cherokees. I went at the request of a gentleman named Henderson, who is acting for several other men as well as for himself. He desired me to represent him in the purchase of land south of the river of Kantuckee. I did as he requested, and arrangements for the purchase of all the land as far as the Tennessee River were completed."
"Why did Mr. Henderson——"
"Colonel Henderson," broke in the scout; "Colonel Richard Henderson."