Produced by Stephen Hutcheson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: “Was I scalped?” he gasped. (See page 115)] CONNECTICUT BOYS =======IN THE======= WESTERN RESERVE. A TALE OF THE MORAVIAN MASSACRE ...BY... _James A. Braden._ AUTHOR OF “FAR PAST THE FRONTIER,” ETC. ILLUSTRATED BY _W. Herbert Dunton_ C AKRON, OHIO THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING CO. NEW YORK CHICAGO _MADE IN U. S. A._ Copyright, 1927 By The Saalfield Publishing Company CONTENTS I. A RAINY NIGHT. 9 II. TALL TODD’S WARNING. 23 III. A MYSTERY OF THE FOREST. 38 IV. THE LONE INDIAN. 52 V. HIDDEN TREASURE. 67 VI. THE CABIN BY THE RIVER. 84 VII. THE REWARD OF VIGILANCE. 101 VIII. THE FATE OF BLACK EAGLE. 117 IX. THE CAMP IN THE TREE-TOP. 134 X. THE QUAKER’S STORY. 148 XI. HELPING THE DELAWARES—DANGER. 165 XII. BANDS OF BLACK. 181 XIII. A CRY FROM THE DARKNESS. 197 XIV. CAPTURED. 212 XV. THE SEARCH. 227 XVI. THE CAVE OF THE FORTUNE HUNTERS. 242 CHAPTER I. A RAINY NIGHT. A dismally wet and cold September day had come early to a close and thick darkness had settled down an hour since, when the horse attached to a heavy, canvas-covered, two-wheeled emigrant wagon stopped, at its driver’s command, before an inhospitable looking house, from one window of which a feeble light was shining. The rain splashed drearily, the wind moaned in a ghostly way about the structure whose dim outlines were just visible, and flapped the canvas over the wagon fitfully.