I should think they must have stopped here, last night.

We will soon see--there is one of their fireplaces." The settler dismounted, and put his hand into the ashes.
"Yes," he said, "they are warm still.

They must have camped here last night.

They started when the moon rose, no doubt.

Thus they have eight or nine hours' start of us, only; and as they can't travel fast, after such a journey as they had yesterday, we ought to be able to catch them long before night." "They will go better today than they did yesterday," Mr.Blount said.