edfeather, who was bringing up the canoe, when I heard
the sounds of the fray, and hastened to your aid."

At this moment Harry opened his eyes, and saying faintly that he felt
better, allowed himself to be raised to a sitting posture, while his
coat was removed and his wound examined. It was found to be a deep
flesh-wound in the shoulder, from which a fragment of the broken arrow
still protruded.

"It's a wonder to me, Mister Harry, how ye held on to that big thief so
long," muttered Jacques, as he drew out the splinter and bandaged up the
shoulder. Having completed the surgical operation after a rough
fashion, they collected the defeated Indians. Those of them that were
able to walk were bound together by the wrists and marched off to the
fort, under a guard which was strengthened by the arrival of several of
the fur-traders who had been in pursuit of the fugitives, and were
attracted to the spot by the shouts of the combatants. Harry and such
of the party as were more or less severely injured were placed in canoes
and conveyed to Stoney Creek by the lake, into which Duck River runs at
the distance of about half a mile from the spot on which the skirmish
had taken place. Misconna was among the latter.

On arriving at Stoney Creek, the canoe party found a large assemblage of
the natives awaiting them on the wharf, and no sooner did Misconna land
than they advanced to seize him.

"Keep back, friends," cried Jacques, who perceived their intentions, and
stepped hastily between them.--"Come here, lads," he continued, turning
to his companions; "surround Misconna. He is _our_ prisoner, and must
ha' fair justice done him, accordin' to white law."

They fell back in silence on observing the guide's determined manner;
but as they hurried the wretched culprit towards the house, one of the
Indians pressed close upon their rear, and before any one could prevent
him, dashed his tomahawk into Misconna's brain. Seeing that the blow
was mortal, the traders ceased to offer any further opposition; and the
Indians, rushing upon his body, bore it away, amid shouts and yells of
execration, to their canoes, to one of which the body was fastened by a
rope, and dragged through the water to a point of land that jutted out
into the lake near at hand. Here they lighted a fire and burned it to
ashes.

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