The time of dreams did not last more than half an hour, but in that period he lived again many years of his life.

He passed once more through many scenes of his early boyhood when Willet was teaching him the ways of the forest.

He met Tayoga anew for the first time, together they went to the house of Mynheer Jacobus Huysman in Albany, and together they went to the school of Alexander McLean; then he jumped over a long period and with Willet and Tayoga had his first meeting with St.Luc and Tandakora.

He was talking to the Frenchman when he came out of that period of years which was yet less than an hour, and sat up.
All the others save the sentinels were asleep, but his delicate senses warned him that something was moving in the forest.

It was at first an instinct rather than anything seen or heard, but soon he traced against the misty background of the dusk the shadowy figures of moving Mohawks.
He saw the tall form of Daganoweda, who had come back from the forest, and who must have come because he had something to tell.