To go on and leave Long Jim to whatever fate might be his was unthinkable.
No task could interfere with the duty of the five to one another.
"We are in one of the most dangerous of all the Indian countries," said Henry.

"We are on the fringe of the region over which the Six Nations roam, and we know that Timmendiquas and a band of the Wyandots are here also.

Perhaps Miamis and Shawnees have come, too." "We've got to find Long Jim," said Silent Tom briefly.
They went about their task in five minutes.

Breakfast consisted of cold venison and a drink from a brook.

Then they began to search the forest.
They felt sure that such woodsmen as they, with the daylight to help them, would find some trace of Long Jim, but they saw none at all, although they constantly widened their circle, and again tried all their signals.