While they felt safe from wandering bands in that lofty and remote region, they took no unnecessary risks.

The valley itself, though deep, was much broken up into separate little valleys, and most of the caves were hidden from their own.

It was this fact that made Robert still think the bears would come, despite coals and flame.

In the evenings they would talk of Willet, and both were firm in the opinion that the hunter had got through to Lake George and that Johnson and Albany had been warned in time.

Each was confirmed in his opinion by the other and in a few days it became certainty.
"I think Tododaho on his star whispered in my ear while I slept that Great Bear has passed the hostile lines," said Tayoga with conviction, "because I know it, just as if the Great Bear himself had told it to me, though I do not know how I know it." "It's some sort of mysterious information," said Robert in the same tone of absolute belief, "and I don't worry any more about Dave and the letter.