"I came upon the coals of a dead fire about two days' old.

By the side of it I found these two red beads that had dropped from the leggings or moccasins of some warrior.

I've seen beads of this kind before, and they all come from the French in Canada." "Then," said Robert, speaking for the first time, "you've no doubt the enemy is near ?" "None in the world," replied Black Rifle, "but I think they're going west, away from us.

It's not likely they know yet we're here, but so large a band as ours can't escape their notice long." "If they did not find that we are here," said Daganoweda proudly, "we would soon tell it to them ourselves, and in such manner that they would remember it." "That we would," said Black Rifle, with equal emphasis.

"Now, what do you think, Daganoweda?
Should we wake the Great Bear and the Mountain Wolf ?" "No, Black Rifle.