In fact, he is already
allied with the renegade and the Indians against you and began war when he
seized one of you. Perhaps it is just as well that you are going to New
Orleans, since Bernardo Galvez, the Spanish Governor, is a man of
different temper, young, enthusiastic, and ready, I think, to listen to
you."
While the priest was talking by the fireside Shif'less Sol, Long Jim, and
Tom Ross slipped away. They hauled his canoe out on dry land, and with the
tools that they had found on "The Galleon" quickly made it as good as
ever. They also quietly put some of their own stores in the canoe, and
then returned it to the water.
"O' course, he won't go comf'tably with us in our boat to New
Or-lee-yuns," said Shif'less Sol. "He'll stick to his canoe an' stop to
preach to Injuns who mebbe will torture him to death, but he has my
respeck an' ef I kin do anything fur him I want to do it."
"So would I," said Jim Hart heartily. "I'm a pow'ful good cook ez you
know, Sol, bein' ez you've et in your time more'n a hundred thousand
pounds uv my victuals, an' I'd like to cook him all the buffaler an' deer
steak he could eat between here an' New Or-lee-yuns, no matter how long he
wuz on the way."
"An' me," said Tom Ross simply, wishing to add his mite, "I'd like to be
on hand when any Injun tried to hurt him.
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