If they reach the water without being fired upon they will assume that we are not here.

Then the entire force will rush across the stream and take up the trail." "But the creeping four will be fired upon." "I think so, too, Dagaeoga, because there is no longer any reason for us to delay, and the rifle of the Great Bear will speak the first word." There was a report near them, and one of the warriors, sinking flat in the grass, lay quite still.

Robert, through the bushes, saw Willet, smoking rifle in hand.

The three savages who lived began a swift retreat, and the others behind them uttered a great cry of grief and rage.

They fired a dozen shots or so, but the bullets merely clipped leaves and twigs in the thickets.