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to him; and he resolved to leave his Indian wife 

 and half-breed children and rejoin the people of 

 his own color. Tradition relates that on the eve 

 of his departure he made his purpose known to 

 Little Turtle, and added, "We have long been 

 friends; we are friends yet, until the sun stands 

 so high [indicating the place] in the heavens ; from 

 that time we are enemies and may kill one another." 

 Be this as it may, he came to Wayne, was taken 

 into high favor, and made chief of scouts, and 

 served loyally and with signal success until the end 

 of the campaign. After the campaign he was 

 joined by his Indian wife and his children; the 

 latter grew up and married well in the community, 

 so that their blood now flows in the veins of many 

 of the descendants of the old pioneers. Wells him- 

 self was slain by the Indians long afterward, in 

 1812, at the Chicago massacre.. 



One of Wells' fellow spies was William Miller. 

 Miller, like W T ells, had been captured by the In- 

 dians when a boy, together with his brother Chris- 

 topher. When he grew to manhood he longed to 

 rejoin his own people, and finally did so, but he 

 could not persuade his brother to come with him, 

 for Christopher had become an Indian at heart. 

 In June, 1794, Wells, Miller, and a third spy, Rob- 

 ert McClellan, were sent out by Wayne with special 

 instructions to bring in a live Indian. McClellan, 

 who a number of years afterward became a famous 

 plainsman and Rocky Mountain man, was remark- 

 ably swift of foot. Near the Glaize River they 



