Wetzel alone did not take kindly to the march of civiliza-
tion; but then he was a hunter, not a pioneer. He kept his
word of peace with his old enemies, the Hurons, though he
never abandoned his wandering and vengeful quests after the
Delawares.

As the years passed Wetzel grew more silent and taciturn.
From time to time he visited Ft. Henry, and on these visits
he spent hours playing with Betty's children. But he was
restless in the settlement, and his sojourns grew briefer and
more infrequent as time rolled on. True to his conviction
that no wife existed on earth for him, he never married. His
home was the trackless wilds, where he was true to his calling--
a foe to the redman.

Wonderful to relate his long, black hair never adorned the
walls of an Indian's lodge, where a warrior might point with
grim pride and say: "No more does the Deathwind blow over
the hills and vales." We could tell of how his keen eye once
again saw Wingenund over the sights of his fatal rifle, and
how he was once again a prisoner in the camp of that life-
long foe, but that's another story, which, perhaps, we may
tell some day.

To-day the beautiful city of Wheeling rises on the banks of
the Ohio, where the yells of the Indians once blanched the
cheeks of the pioneers. The broad, winding river rolls on as
of yore; it alone remains unchanged. What were Indians and
pioneers, forts and cities to it? Eons of time before human
beings lived it flowed slowly toward the sea, and ages after
men and their works are dust, it will roll on placidly with its
eternal scheme of nature.

Upon the island still stand noble beeches, oaks, and chest-
nuts--trees that long ago have covered up their bullet-scars,
but they could tell, had they the power to speak, many a wild
thrilling tale. Beautiful parks and stately mansions grace
the island; and polished equipages roll over the ground that
once knew naught save the soft tread of the deer and the
moccasin.

McColloch's Rock still juts boldly out over the river as
steep and rugged as when the brave Major leaped to everlast-

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