With some difficulty Rudolph Runnion was restored to consciousness, and his wounds carefully dressed. He chafed terribly over his situation, knowing the doom in store for him, and tried to free himself from the avengers’ bonds. At length the captors set out upon their return to Wayne’s army, which they found encamped at Roche de Bœuf, just south of the present site of Waterville, where heavy earthworks were being erected. The major was placed under a strong guard, with the knowledge that Wayne’s intentions were to deliver him over to the avengers of blood immediately after the battle. CHAPTER XVI. THE CURTAIN FALLS. In the early evening of one of the balmiest days of October, 1794, two figures ascended the eastern declivity of a remarkable promontory whose western summit gave a commanding view to the eye of an Indian town of considerable dimensions, in the center of a prairie-like country far below their feet. The dress and features of the twain at once would proclaim them Kenowatha and Mark Morgan. They were a day or so in advance of Wayne’s army, which was sweeping through the country like a whirlwind, destroying thousands of acres of ripened corn and burning the villages of the Indians, thus inflicting upon them the direst punishment that they could receive. After the victory of the Fallen Timbers--in which not only the She-wolf and her young companion performed a most thrilling part, but in which Effie St. Pierre had herself killed the old trader as he was in the act of sacrificing Mark to his fiendish vengeance--a wounded Indian had discharged his rifle at Kenowatha and inflicted a wound which had caused a great amount of suffering, and the morning of the day in question was the first that witnessed his stepping again upon the war path. Nanette had left him for a few days, for the purpose of scouting up the Maumee, and had promised to meet the army at a certain place; but the promise had not been kept. Where was she? At the battle of Fallen Timbers she had succeeded in closing the fearful list of her victims, by slaying Turkey-foot in a manner which struck double terror to his fierce comrades; and Kenowatha had, almost at the moment, dealt the detested and blood-bespattered Girty his death-blow in a contest which hate and a thirst for vengeance in both made especially relentless; so that both the She-wolf and her friend had now no particular enemies to hunt them down. Where then was she? The youth was growing uneasy at the Girl Avenger’s absence and though Mark assured him that she was safe--when even he feared the worst--the renegade’s _protege_ would not be comforted. They had ascended the hill for the purpose of ascertaining whether the Indians intended to make a stand at this, their greatest village; but they soon learned that the panic still existed among the ranks of the red-men, for they were destroying their lodges, saving Wayne that labor.