"We agreed, you know, that it would be sure to happen.

We can't do anything until night comes, and then we've got to be mighty cautious." Paul could not dispute the truth of his words, and they withdrew carefully to the crest of a hill, where they lay in the undergrowth, watching the Indians complete their fire and their preparations for the night.

It was evident to Henry that they considered themselves perfectly safe.

Certainly they had every reason for thinking so.

It was not likely that white enemies were within a hundred miles of them, and, if so, it could only be a wandering hunter or two, who would flee from this fierce band of Senecas who bad taken revenge for the great losses that they' had suffered the year before at the Oriskany.
They kept very little watch and built only a small fire, just enough for broiling deer meat which they carried.