“So that damned Red Sachem escaped you?” said the General, biting his lip and looking now at me, now at Boyd.

Boyd said, glancing curiously at me:

“When we came up we found the entire Tory army here. I must admit, sir, that we were an hour late, having been blocked by the passage of two hundred Hurons and Iroquois who crossed our trail, cutting us from the north.”

“What became of them?”

“They joined Butler, Brant, and Hiokatoo at this place, General.”

Then the General asked for my report; and I gave it as exactly as I could, the General listening most attentively to my narrative, and Boyd deeply and sombrely interested.