Then I felt my bonds being unloosed, and a strong arm pulled me to my feet.

When it let go I dropped again, and not till many hands had raised me and set me on a log could I look round at my whereabouts.
I was in a crook of a hill glen, lit with a great radiance of moonlight.

Fires dotted the flat, and Indian tents, and there seemed to me hundreds of savages crowding in on me.

I do not suppose that I showed any fear, for my bodily weakness had made me as impassive as any Indian.
Presently a voice spoke to me, but I could not understand the words.

I shook my head feebly, and another spoke.