Yet made she no mention of me, and of my crying out at the house ?--for I must indeed have seen her there!" "She asked me your name, Monsieur, and when I told her she said she recalled it not.

Knew she you by some other ?" He did not answer, though I could mark his heavy breathing, as if he strove with himself for mastery.

Nor did I speak again, eager as I now was to arrange some plan for the future; for this man was certainly in no condition to counsel with.
I know not how long I may have rested there in silence, seeking vainly in my own mind for some opening of escape, or means whereby I might communicate with Mademoiselle.

Would the strange woman forget me now, or would she venture upon a return with her message?
If not, I must grope forward without her, hampered as I should be by this unnerved and helpless Frenchman.

Outside, the noise had almost wholly ceased,--at least, close to where we were,--and I could perceive that a slight tinge of returning day was already in the air, faintly revealing the interior of the lodge.
As I sat thus, drifting through inaction into a more despairing mood, the rear covering of the tepee moved almost imperceptibly, and I turned hastily to seek the cause, my heart in my throat lest it prove an enemy, perhaps some stealthy savage still seeking the life of De Croix.
It was far from being light as yet, but there was sufficient to show me the faint outline of a woman's figure.