I'm going to steal forward to the woman, but the moment you four hear an alarm open with your rifles and pistols.
You can come a little nearer without being heard." All of them moved up close to the Indian camp, and lay hidden in the last fringe of bushes except Henry.

He lay almost flat upon the ground, carrying his rifle parallel with his side, and in his right hand.

He was undertaking one of the severest and most dangerous tests known to a frontiersman.

He meant to crawl into the very midst of a camp of the Iroquois, composed of the most alert woodsmen in the world, men who would spring up at the slightest crackle in the brush.

Woodmen who, warned by some sixth sense, would awaken at the mere fact of a strange presence.
The four who remained behind in the bushes could not keep their hearts from beating louder and faster.