CHAPTER III.
THE FLIGHT They were within twenty-four hours of the fort, when they struck a new trail, one of the many they had seen in the forest, but Tayoga observed it with unusual attention.
"Why does it interest you so much ?" asked Robert.

"We've seen others like it and you didn't examine them so long." "This is different, Dagaeoga.

Wait a minute or two more that I may observe it more closely." Young Lennox and Willet stood to one side, and the Onondaga, kneeling down in the grass, studied the imprints.

It was late in the afternoon, and the light of the red sun fell upon his powerful body, and long, refined, aristocratic face.

That it was refined and aristocratic Robert often felt, refined and aristocratic in the highest Indian way.