for the rest of the day and into the night.

The people of the cabins and the fort had heard the fracas out in the
fog. They could see little. Still not knowing how many Indians there
were, Captain Ogle and twelve men sallied to the reinforcement. They,
too, were ambushed, and wiped out. Captain Ogle himself hid in a
fence-corner, until darkness. Only Sergeant Jacob Ogle, his son,
Martin Wetzel and perhaps one other man, escaped to the fort.

From the Captain Mason party only Hugh McConnell and Thomas Glenn came.
Of the twenty-six men under the two captains these five, alone, ran
gasping in from the deadly fog; and two had been badly wounded.

By this time the women and children, carrying the babies, and many of
them still in their night-clothes, had scurried from their cabin homes
into the fort. The mists were lifting; and barely had the gates of the
fort been closed again when the Indian lines advanced upon the village.
They appeared, marching to beat of drum, with the British flag flying;
crossed the corn-field bottom-land and took possession of the village.
The cabins and out-buildings swarmed with them.

From a window of a cabin near to the fort the white savage shouted a
message. He promised mercy to all the people who would join the cause
of their sovereign, King George; he had come to escort them safely to
Detroit. And he read a proclamation from Lieutenant-Governor Henry
Hamilton, the general commanding the British Northwest, offering pardon
to the "rebels" who would renounce the cause of the Colonies. The
people here would be allowed fifteen minutes to decide.

There were no faint hearts in Fort Henry. Colonel Ebenezer Zane
replied at once.

"We have consulted our wives and children, and we all are resolved to
perish, sooner than trust to your savages, or desert the cause of
liberty. You may do your worst."

"Think well of that," retorted the Indian's spokesman. "I have a
thousand warriors. They are rich with powder and guns furnished by
their father at Detroit. Once you enrage them, I will not be able to
hold them back. Then it will not be possible for you to escape.
Better for you to save your wives and children by accepting the offer
of the governor and yielding to your rightful king."

But a rifle bullet made him duck. The attack opened at once.

There were thirty-three men and grown boys in the fort; and as many
women and children. Led by the white savage, the Indians charged th