rters, but more terrifying.

Presently a cloud of skirmishers issued once more from the Indian camp,
creeping among the trees and bushes, and seeking a chance to shoot down
the men at the guns. But sharp eyes were watching them.

"Come, boys," exclaimed Henry. "Here's work for us now."

He led the scouts and the best of the riflemen against the skirmishers,
who were soon driven in again. The artillery fire had never ceased for a
moment, the shells and balls passing over their heads. Their work done,
the sharpshooters fell back again, the gunners worked faster for a
while, and then at a command they ceased suddenly. Henry, Paul, and all
the others knew instinctively what was going to happen. They felt it in
every bone of them. The silence so sudden was full of meaning.

"Now!" Henry found himself exclaiming. Even at that moment the order was
given, and the whole army rushed forward, the smoke floating away for
the moment and the sun flashing off the bayonets. The five sprang up
and rushed on ahead. A sheet of flame burst from the embankment, and the
rifle pits sprang into fire. The five beard the bullets whizzing past
them, and the sudden cries of the wounded behind them, but they never
ceased to rush straight for the embankment.

It seemed to Henry that he ran forward through living fire. There was
one continuous flash from the earthwork, and a continuous flash replied.
The rifles were at work now, thousands of them, and they kept up an
incessant crash, while above them rose the unbroken thunder of the
cannon. The volume of smoke deepened, and it was shot through with the
sharp, pungent odor of burned gunpowder.

Henry fired his rifle and pistol, almost unconsciously reloaded, and
fired again, as he ran, and then noticed that the advance had never
ceased. It had not been checked even for a moment, and the bayonets of
one of the regiments glittered in the sun a straight line of steel.

Henry kept his gaze fixed upon a point where the earthwork was lowest.
He saw there the plumed head of Thayendanegea, and he intended to strike
if he could. He saw the Mohawk gesticulating and shouting to his men to
stand fast and drive back the charge. He believed even then, and he knew
later, that Thayendanegea and Timmendiquas were showing courage superior
to that of the Johnsons and Butters or any of their British and Canadian
allies. The two great chiefs still held their men in line, and the
Iroquois did not cease to send a stre