I still think that he is with Rogers and the rangers, and when we follow his trail we are likely to find soon that he has rejoined them." The traces led north and east until they came to rocky ground, where they were lost, and Tayoga assumed from the fact that they were several days old, otherwise he could have made them out even in the more difficult region.

But when the path, despite all his searching, vanished in the air, he began to look higher than the earth.

Soon he smiled and said: "Ah, the Great Bear is as wise as the fox and the serpent combined.

He knows that a little chance may lead to great results, and so he neglects none of the little chances." "I don't understand you," said Robert, puzzled.
The Onondaga bent over a bush and showed where a twig had been cut off.
"See the wound made by his knife," he said, "and look! here is another on a bush farther on.

Both wounds are partly healed, showing that the cut of the knife was made several days ago.