I'll go into the grove myself and see if anybody is there now." "Leftenant, if I was you I'd be mighty keerful.

If it's a spy it'll be easy enough for him under the cover of the trees to shoot you in the open comin' toward him." Harry knew that Jackson planned a surprise of some kind and Seth Moore's words about the mounted man alarmed him.

He did not doubt the accuracy of the young mountaineer's eyesight, or his coolness, and he resolved that he would not go back to headquarters until he knew more about that "shadow." But Moore's advice about caution was not to be unheeded.
"If you keep in the edge of our woods here," said Moore, "an' ride along a piece you'll come to a little valley.

Then you kin go up that an' come into the grove over thar without being seed." "Good advice.

I'll take it." Harry loosened one of the pistols in his belt and rode cautiously through the wood as Seth Moore had suggested.