The Hidden Children by Robert William Chambers Chapter 2 Page 12

struck us; and the Stockbridge and White Plains tribes, and the remnants of the Mohicans.

“And that is why we have come here for riflemen, and that is why we are here to find the Sagamore, Mayaro. For our Oneidas have told us that he knows where the castles of the Long House lie, and that he can guide our army unerringly to that dark, obscure and fearsome Catharines-town where the hag, Montour, reigns in her shaggy wilderness.”

There was a long silence; and I for one, amazed at what I had heard — for I had made certain that we were to have struck at Canada — was striving to reconcile this astounding news with all my preconceived ideas. Yet, that is ever the way with us in the regiments; we march, not knowing whither; we camp at night not knowing why.