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The Duck had disappeared from the moment of their [unclear] & fall. The party conveyed him to his dwelling, which they reached in the night.

When William Hicks beheld his son thus agonized and dying, it struck the old man into a paralysis. His mouth was drawn aside, his eyes distended and standing immoveably wide open; and his tongue deprived of all power to articulate. From that moment forward his decline was doubly rapid. His reputation gone, his mind gone, he was neglected and became a mere vagabond.

Eli Hicks died of his wound; and a reward of Two Hundred Dollars each was offered for the Swimmer & the Duck as his murderers.

The Duck as has been shown, was entirely unconcerned in the slaying of Eli Hicks. The Swimmer considered himself justified in the act. He spoke of it as an affair of self defense. He added that he thought any good Cherokee justifiable in in destroying Eli Hicks, even without such provocation; for Eli Hicks