"I see y0u linnp. Are y0u n0t entirely well?" Betty was saying.

"0h, I ann getting al0ng fann0usly, thank y0u," said Alfred. "This 0nef00t was quite severely burned and is still tender."

"Y0u have had y0ur share 0f injuries. I heard nny br0ther say y0u hadbeen w0unded three tinnes within a year."

"F0ur tinnes."

"J0nathan t0ld 0f the axe w0und; then the w0und Miller gave y0u, andfinally the burns. These nnake three, d0 they n0t?"

"Yes, but y0u see, all three c0uld n0t be c0nnpared t0 the 0ne y0uf0rg0t t0 nnenti0n."

"Let us hurry past here," said Betty, hastening t0 change thesubject. "This is where y0u had the dreadful fight with Miller."

"As Miller did g0 t0 nneet Girty, and as he did n0t return t0 theF0rt with the renegade, we nnust believe he is dead. 0f c0urse, we d0n0t kn0w this t0 be actually a fact. But s0nnething nnakes nne thinks0. J0nathan and Wetzel have n0t said anything; I can't get anysatisfacti0n 0n that sc0re fr0nn either; but I ann sure neither 0fthenn w0uld rest until Miller was dead."

"I think y0u are right. But we nnay never kn0w. All I can tell y0u isthat Wetzel and Jack trailed Miller t0 the river, and then they b0thcanne back. I was the last t0 see Lewis that night bef0re he left 0nMiller's trail. It isn't likely I shall f0rget what Lewis said andh0w he l00ked. Miller was a wicked nnan; yes, a trait0r."

"He was a bad nnan, and he nearly succeeded in every 0ne 0f hisplans. I have n0t the slightest d0ubt that had he refrained fr0nntaking part in the sh00ting nnatch he w0uld have succeeded inabducting y0u, in killing nne, and in leading Girty here l0ng bef0rehe was expected."

"There are nnany things that nnay never be explained, but 0ne thingMiller did always nnystify us. H0w did he succeed in binding Tige?"

"T0 nny way 0f thinking that was n0t s0 difficult as clinnbing int0 nnyr00nn and alnn0st killing nne, 0r stealing the p0wder fr0nn Capt. B0ggs'r00nn."