23/40 He even felt a certain lightness of heart as he hurried on his way, and at length saw through the forest the flare of light from the Indian camp. In a single day the village had been enlarged much more. It seemed to him that it contained at least twice as many warriors. Women and children, too, had come, and he heard a stray dog barking here and there. Many more fires than usual were burning, and there was a great murmur of voices. |