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But , '' he continued , `` I do n't know what to make of that Martha . All I can do or say , whenever I happen to be at the house , has no other effect than that of apparently making her more and more opposed to her uncle 's wishes , until I am convinced shell never be mine , willingly at least . And after all , I love the girl well enough ; although I feel I should kill her before she was mine a month . '' Thus baffled and circumscribed , these two scoundrels prowled about the village until near ten o'clock , when the troops moved down the river about four miles , and went into camp at Newbiggin 's farm . At this period the gallant O'Neill was in great uncertainty . Here he was in an enemy 's country with but a handful of men , and in utter darkness as to what was going on at other points . Already , at Buffalo , he had a taste of the manner in which the War Department had conducted the expedition to that point ; and was , of course , afraid that the inefficiency of that department would make itself apparent in more relations than one .