"Did ye say, my boy, that they were
all
killed?"
inquired Mrs. Varley, awaking from her reverie with
a deep sigh.
"Every one," replied Marston. "Jim Scraggs, who
brought the news, said they wos all lying dead with
their scalps off. They wos a party o' white men."
Mrs. Varley sighed again, and her face assumed an
expression of anxious pain as she thought of her son