"So do I." They came to another camp fire, at which the ashes were not yet cold.
Feathers were scattered about, indicating that the Indians had taken time for a little side hunt, and had shot some birds.
"They can't be more than two or three hours ahead," said Henry, "and we'll have to go on now very cautiously." They were in a country of high hills, well covered with forests, a region suited to an ambush, which they feared but little on their own account; but, for the sake of extreme caution, they now advanced slowly.
The afternoon was long and warm, but an hour before sunset they looked over a hill into a glade, and saw the warriors making camp for the night.
The sight they beheld made the pulses of the five throb heavily.

The Indians had already built their fire, and two of them were cooking venison upon it.

Others were lying on the grass, apparently resting, but a little to one side sat a woman, still young and of large, strong figure, though now apparently in the last stages of exhaustion, with her feet showing through the fragments of shoes that she wore.

Her head was bare, and her dress was in strips.

Four children lay beside her' the youngest two with their heads in her lap.