"I am indeed grateful to him," said the stranger.  "He preserved my life when so many of my companions were massacred.  He has ever since continued my protector, but when it was supposed that he was killed, his people threatened to avenge his death by murdering me.  Grateful as I am to him and to you, I am restored to liberty a ruined and a childless man, while I know not what has become of my poor wife, who was providentially absent from the settlement at the time of the massacre, but will have supposed that I, as well as our little girl, shared the common fate," answered Mr Kennedy, for such he told us was his name.