James Fenimore Cooper's Frontier: The Pioneers as History

Chapter 32: 

[Natty Arrested] Returning to the village, Richard Jones arrives at the Mansion 

House to find the dead mastiff Brave, and to learn in convoluted fashion from Ben Pump of 

Elizabeth's encounter with the panther, her rescue by Natty, the quarrel between Judge Temple 

and Oliver Edwards, and eventually of the charges against Natty. He gathers a posse to arrest 

Natty, but when they reach the cabin they find it burned to the ground by its owner; a sorrowful 

Natty gives himself up quietly and is carried off to jail.