"They came from the hills a moon ago, and have been making bad trouble on the Rappahannock.

I found them at the place above the beaver traps of the Ooniche.

They return no more to their people." After that we sent out warnings, and kept a close eye on the different lodges of the Algonquins.

But nothing happened till weeks later, when the tragedy on the Rapidan fell on us like a thunderclap.
* * * * * All this time I had been too busy to go near the town or the horse-racings and holiday meetings where I might have seen Elspeth.

But I do not think she was ever many minutes out of my mind.