Its flight was shorter and dropped almost under the nose of Elspeth's horse, which swerved violently, and would have unseated a less skilled horsewoman.
"On, on," I cried, for we were past the need for silence, and when I looked again, the kindly fog had swallowed up the van of the party.
I turned and gazed back, and there I saw a strange sight.

A dozen men or more had come to the edge of the trees on the hill-side.

They were quite near, not two hundred yards distant, and I saw them clearly.

They carried bows or muskets, but none offered to use them.

They were tall fellows, but lighter in the colour than any Indians I had seen.