It's my private opine, then, that that hunter has took the gal up among them Injins, and they're both living thar.

If that be so, you needn't be afeard to go right among 'em, for the only thing yer'll have to look out fur will be the same old hunter himself." This remark made a deep impression upon Teddy.

He sat smoking his pipe, and gazing into the glowing embers, as if he could there trace out the devious, and thus far invisible, trail that had baffled him so long.

It must be confessed that the search of the Hibernian thus far had been carried on in a manner that could hardly be expected to insure success.

He had spent weeks in wandering through the woods, sleeping upon the ground or in the branches of some tree, fishing for awhile in some stream, or hunting for game--impelled onward all the time by his unconquerable resolve to find Cora Richter and return her to her husband.