High above all else came the harsh notes of the alarm bell that had been hung in the blockhouse to give warning of sudden impending danger!
FOOTNOTES:
[1] See "The Pioneer Boys of the Ohio."
[A] The notes will be found at the end of the book.
CHAPTER II
SEEKING REFUGE AT THE BLOCKHOUSE
"Look! there is father coming out! He has heard it now!" gasped Sandy, as he ran.
"And with poor little mother close behind him, waving her arms to us to hurry. But where can Kate be, do you think?" asked Bob, as a sudden suspicion came flashing into his mind.
"Perhaps at the spring. She often sits there, and plays. Surely she could not be in the cabin, and fail to follow mother," his brother declared.