Scene at dawn; page 19:--Mothers and children; Captain Wells and his Miamis; his niece, Rebekah Heald; why he blackened his face; the Dead March; the Fort cattle; Indian follies; 20:--Margaret Helm, the authority for Mrs. Kinzie's narrative in Wau-Bun; 21:--Ensign Ronan's insubordination; Rebekah Heald's version as reported by her son, Darius; 22:--Evacuation of the fort; Captain Heald's force; Kinzie family; they take boat; 23:--To-pee-nee-be's warning; line of march; 24:--Pottowatomie "escort;" 25:--Wau-Bun narrative begins; the attack; 27:--Surgeon Van Voorhees; 28:--Black Partridge rescues Mrs. Helm; scene portrayed in bronze group; 29:--John Kinzie reports safety of Lieutenant Helm; Captain Wells's scalp; Indians are kind to Mrs. Helm; she learns details of the struggle; a squaw tortures a wounded soldier; 30:--English blamed for Indian alliance; Mrs. Heald's narrative begins; similar to Mrs. Helm's; the sand-ridges; 31:--Captain Wells orders and leads the charges; the battle thus foolishly lost; signal for surrender; 32:--The twelve militia-men; Captain Heald's wound; 33:--Mrs. Heald's six wounds; particulars of Wells's death; Indians cut out his heart and eat it; 34:--"Epeconier!"; his noble self-sacrifice; relics in the Calumet Club; 35:--Mrs. Heald fights for her blanket; 36:--Stripped of her jewelry; what became of it; articles redeemed and still in existence; 37:--Chandonnais saves the Healds' lives; wounded prisoners tortured to death; 38:--Fatal blot on the Indian race; Mrs. Helm's report goes on at second hand; variance with Captain Heald's; 39:--The latter casts no slurs; 40:--One Indian kills twelve children in the baggage-wagon; Mrs. Helm's incredible account of Wells's death; 41:--True-seeming tale of the Kinzies' escape; doubtful statement about Mrs. Heald; 42:--Kinzies again in the old house; Indians burn the fort; they guard the Kinzies, Wabash hostiles come; 44:--Peril and panic; 45:--Saved by Billy Caldwell, the Sau-ga-nash; 46:--Sukey Corbin's fate, as told by Mrs. Jouett; 48:--Possibility that a narrative by Lieutenant Helm may exist, Indian traits; 49:--What is next to be shown; 50. PART II. HOW THE FORT AND CITY WERE BEGUN AND WHO WERE THE BEGINNERS