do all that fur me, Jim? Now, what under the sun
is a wally?"

"I heard all about 'em from Paul," replied Long Jim in a tone of intense
satisfaction. "A wally is a man what does fur you what you ought to do
fur yourself."

"Then I want one," said Shif'less Sol emphatically. "He'd jest suit a
lazy man like me. An' ez fur your makin' me the King o' France, mebbe
you're more'n half right about that without knowin' it. I hev all the
instincts uv a king. I like to be waited on, I like to eat when I'm
hungry, I like to drink when I'm thirsty, I like to rest when I'm tired,
an' I like to sleep when I'm sleepy. You've heard o' children changed at
birth by fairies an' sech like. Mebbe I'm the real King o' France,
after all, an' my instincts are handed down to me from a thousand royal
ancestors."

"Mebbe it's so," rejoined Long Jim. "I've heard that thar hev been a
pow'ful lot uv foolish kings."

With that he put his two blankets upon the floor, lay down upon them,
and was sound asleep in five minutes. But Shif'less Sol beat him to
slumberland by at least a minute, and the others were not more than two
minutes behind Sol.

Henry was the first up the next morning. A strong voice shouted in
his ear: "Henry Ware, by all that's glorious," and a hand pressed his
fingers together in an iron grasp. Henry beheld the tall, thin figure
and smiling brown face of Adam Colfax, with whom he had made that
adventurous journey up the Mississippi and Ohio.

"And the others?" was the first question of Adam Colfax.

"They're all here asleep inside. We've been through a lot of things, but
we're as sound as ever."

"That's always a safe prediction to make," said Adam Colfax, smiling. "I
never saw five other human beings with such a capacity for getting out
of danger."

"We were all at Wyoming, and we all still live."

The face of the New Englander darkened.

"Wyoming!" he exclaimed. "I cannot hear of it without every vein growing
hot within me."

"We saw things done there," said Henry gravely, "the telling of which few
men can bear to hear."

"I know! I know!" exclaimed Adam Colfax. "The news of it has spread
everywhere!"

"What we want," said Henry, "is revenge. It is a case in which we must
strike back, and strike hard. If this thing goes on, not a white
life will be safe on the whole border from the St. Lawrence to the
Mississippi."

"It is true," said Adam Colfax, "and we would send an army now against
the Iroquois and their