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THE STRANGE CAMP.
The Apaches, however, were not quarreling.

They were engaged in a dispute, or rather argument, which concerned them all, and about which it was all-important that no blunder should be made.
Fred Munson, the instant he found himself upon the ground, moved timidly back, so as to be out of the way when the expected clash of arms would come, and he watched the three men with an intensity of interest which can scarcely be imagined.

He now noticed, for the first time, that as the disputants talked, they all three pointed and looked, at intervals, up the mountain, showing that the all-absorbing topic was located there.
Following the direction indicated, the boy noticed the smoke of a camp-fire rising from the side of the mountain, about a quarter of a mile in advance.

It could be seen plainly and distinctly, although the fire itself from which the smoke came was imperceptible.