Now Lennox awakes also! O Dagaeoga, you have slept and missed all the great jest." "What do you mean, Tayoga ?" "Tandakora built his fire just beyond the big bush that grows ten feet away, and sat there two hours without suspecting our presence here." "Now I know you are romancing, Tayoga, because I can see the twinkle in your eyes.

But I suspect that what you say bears some remote relation to the truth." "The hostile hunters passed while you slept, and while I slept also, but the Great Bear was all eyes and ears and he did not think it needful to awaken us." "What are we going to do now, Dave ?" "Eat more venison.

We must never fail to keep the body strong." "And then ?" "I'm not sure.

I thought once that we'd better go south to our army at Lake George with news of this big band, but it's a long distance down there, and it may be wiser to stay here and watch St.Luc.What do you say, Robert ?" "Stay here." "And you, Tayoga ?" "Watch St.Luc." "I was inclining to that view myself, and it's settled now.

But we mustn't move from this place until dark; it would be too dangerous in the day." The lads nodded and the three settled into another long period of waiting..