Doubtless it was a signal and had connection with the search, but he felt no alarm.

Under the cover of darkness Tayoga and he were still motes in the wilderness, and, while the night lasted, Tandakora could not find them.
When he judged that the three hours had passed he awoke the Onondaga and they took their silent way north by east, covering much more distance by dawn.

But both were certain that warriors of Tandakora would pick up their traces again that day.

They would spread through the forest, and, when one of them struck the trail, a cry would be sufficient to call the others.
But they pressed on, still adopting every possible device to throw off their pursuers, and they continued their flight several days, always through an unbroken forest, over hills and across many streams, large and small.

It seemed, at times, to Robert that the pursuit must have dropped away, but Tayoga was quite positive that Tandakora still followed.