What say you to sending Tayoga, our swiftest runner, to the wagons for a third force ?" "A good plan, a most excellent plan, Dave! And while he's about it, tell him to make it thirty instead of twenty.

Then we'll burn the faces of these Indian warriors.

Aye, Dave, we'll scorch 'em so well that they'll be glad to turn back!" It was arranged in a minute or two and Tayoga disappeared like one of his own arrows in the forest and the darkness, while the others followed, but much more slowly.

It would not escape the sharp eyes of the warriors that a reenforcement had come, but, confident in their numbers, they would continue the pursuit with unabated zeal.
The united bands of hunters and scouts fell back slowly, and for a long time.

Robert looked with interest at Rogers' men.