I've seen a letter from him in which he says 'twas a terrible fight, but that we threw away our chances before we went upon the field." "Grosvenor! Grosvenor!" exclaimed Robert eagerly.

"Why, I knew him! He was a friend of mine! We were in the forest together, in combat and escape.

His first name was Alfred.

Did he say nothing in his letter of Robert Lennox ?" "Of course he did! I was so much interested in you that I paid little attention to your name, and it glided past me as if I'd not heard it.

He told of a friend of his, name of yours, who had been lost, murdered they all believed by some spy." "And did he say nothing also of Tayoga, a wonderful Onondaga Indian, and of David Willet, a great hunter ?" "Aye, so he did.