Morning came at last, however, without a renewal of the onslaught, and the settlers took a look around. They saw that the fort was surrounded by at least a hundred redskins, and they realized that the Indians intended to stay till they captured the fort.
“They will put in the day planning, and to-night they’ll attack us again,” said Mr. Holden, after looking at the Indians a while.
“Yes, that’ll be their game,” said Mr. Perkins.
“But they can’t capture the fort, can they?” asked Tom Dare, who was standing on the platform, beside the two men, taking a look at the Indians.
“I don’t think they could capture the fort,” said Perkins, “but likely they’ll lay siege to it and try to make us surrender, arter our grub gives out.”
“But you have enough to last quite a while, haven’t you?”
“Two or three days, I guess.”
“Well, Dick will be back with General Greene and his army in four or five days, I think.”
“Maybe we can hold out till then,” said Mr. Perkins.
“I think we can,” said Holden.