I think he iss the very kind of man who would be fleet of foot." "I had to pick up his trail after he went through the alley," said Tayoga, "and I lost time in doing so.

When I found it he was out of the main part of the town and in the outskirts, running towards the river.
Even then I might have caught him, but he sprang into the stream and swam with great skill and speed.

When I came upon the bank, he was too far away for a shot from my pistol, and he escaped into the thickets on the other shore." "I wish we could have caught him," said Mynheer Jacobus.

"Then we might have uncovered much that I would like to know.

What iss it, Tayoga?
You haf something more to tell!" "Before he reached the river," said the Onondaga, "he tore in pieces a letter, a letter that must have been enclosed in an envelope.